MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The most striking feature on the iconic U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis is something you look right through — literally.
Instead of a 1990s-style retractable roof, which most NFL stadiums rarely open, the Minnesota Vikings are using a revolutionary design that is incredibly light.
“It’s truly going to feel like you’re at, you know, an open-air stadium, but you’ll be here in the winter months,” Mortenson Construction’s Brendan Moore said.
The colossal stadium is 1.8-million square feet. The entire old Metrodome could fit inside it.
And 60 percent of the slanted roof is covered with a product called ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, better known by the nickname ETFE.