Movable seating
feature of facilities like stadiums
Movable seating is a feature of some facilities like stadiums, often known as convertible stadiums, or moduable stadiums. It allows for the movement of parts of the grandstand to allow for a change of the playing surface shape. This allows games that use various shaped playing surfaces such as an oval field, for cricket and/or Australian rules football; or a rectangular field, for football (soccer), rugby league, rugby union, American football, and/or Canadian football; or a diamond field, for baseball; to be played in the same stadium. This is particularly useful in Australia and the United States, where various professional sports with varying field configurations are popular spectator pastimes. The process of conversion from one form to another is time consuming, depending on the stadium it can take from 8 to 80 hours. Many stadiums were built in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s to host both baseball and American football.
Stadiums with movable seating
Asia
Saitama Super Arena in Saitama City, Saitama, Japan, has separate layouts for arena-style seating for basketball and hockey and stadium-style seating for soccer, American football, and concerts. This is made possible by a large movable block.
Europe
Allianz Park, the stadium that is the most notable structure within the Barnet Copthall leisure complex in London, England, United Kingdom, has movable seating that was installed for the benefit of its primary tenant, the Saracens rugby union club, in a renovation that was completed in early 2013. The movable stands allow the stadium to continue to serve in its original role as an athletics (track and field) venue.
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