- Name of building
- Palacio de los Deportes
- Construction year
- 1968
- Structural system
- Space trusses
- Primary use
- Stadium
- Architect
- Architect2
- Enrique Castañeda / Antoni Peyri
- Structural engineer
- Felix Candela
- Constructor
- Professional
- BACO Cotracts Ltd. London
- Country
- MEXICO
- Address
- Viaducto Rio de la Piedao / Ave. Rio Churubusco. Izatacalco. Mexico, D. F.
- Means of transportation
- Walking 500m south from Estacion de Metro Velodrome (Line-9)
- Admission
- Outside:OK, Inside:NO
At the time of events only. - Reference
- ①Felix Candela, Supervisor; Yutaka Saito, Editor; Naomi Miwa..
Forewords; Felix Candela, Ove Arup, Frei Otto, Mamoru Kawagucxi, Riicht Miyake, Mutsuro Sasaki Published by TOTO Shuppan, Tokyo on August 10,1995, pp. 194-211. Japanese Language
②ZSM-2, Analysis, Design and Construction of Braced Domes.
Edited by Z,S, Makowski, Granada Publishing Ltd, London. 1984.p..
③Arquitectos Contemporáneos de Mexico, Louise Noelle Editorial Trillas, Mexico, D.F. 2nd Edition, 1993.p.31.
④IASS Bulletin No.71+72, September 1979, p.27-38, Fig. 47-51.
Notes for History the development of thin shells in Mexico, by Felix Candela. - Note
- Photo taken on January 29,1994. ③-107
Span:134m.