Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg
Year of Completion 2010
The Soccer City Stadium was recently revamped for 2010 FIFA World Cup, the stadium is the largest in Africa with a capacity 94,700.
The outside of the stadium is designed to have the appearance of an African pot; the cladding on the outside is a mosaic of fire and earthen colours with a ring of lights running around the bottom of the structure, simulating fire underneath the pot. No spectator is seated more than 100 metres (330 ft) from the field, and there are no restricted views in the stadium
The new roof is cantilevered from an impressive triangular spatial ring truss, covered by a sand-coloured PTFE membrane resembling the shades of the sandy mine dumps. Macalloy supplied M24 Macalloy 460 tendons as cross bracing in the roof structure, providing essential tensioning to the structure.