Thought it would be interesting to find out a bit about the Globe Arena that the Ottawa Senators and the Pittsburgh Penguins will faceoff in this coming weekend. It looks like the Igloo in Pittsburgh, and my source that is over in Stockholm now says its a complete different feel from the Igloo in Pittsburgh. For one thing there seems to be more pride behind the Globe Arena as it is the largest hemispherical building in the world and took two and a half years to build. Shaped like a large golf ball, it has a diameter of 110 meters (361 feet) and an inner height of 85 meters (279 feet). The volume of the building is 600,000 cubic meters (21,188,800 cubic feet). It has seating capacity for 16,000 spectators for shows and concerts, and 14,119 for Ice Hockey. It represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the world's largest scale model of the Solar System.
It has also hosted Pope John Paul II held a mass in the arena in 1989 as the first pope to hold a mass in Sweden. Other notable appearances at the arena have included Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. Not to mention countless concerts.
The Igloo (Melon Arena) is famous for the movie Sudden Death and the 1995 WWF Summer Slam.....
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