Auer+Weber is listed as having designed the sports venues for the tragic 1972 olympics in Munich, Germany. Their sporting grounds and buildings for this project won the 1981 International Architecture Award from the UIA. Günther Behnisch designed the stadium with contributions from Frei Otto, Hermann Peltz, and Carlo Weber.
The stadium has a capacity of 80,000. The tent structure uses an expressive tensile structure with great supporting masts to hang translucent panels over the seating, the first such structure to be built on such a scale. The PVC-coated polyester fabric is on an independent structure system.
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