Mellon Arena

Monday, 13th June 2005 by

The Mellon Arena is home to the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins and more importantly was the setting for the 1995 Van Damme "classic" - Sudden Death. The arena was even on the movie poster along with an exploding helicopter.

The "radio tower" looking part is actually a 260 foot cantilever arm designed to support the eight steel 'leaves' that can fully retract in just 2 minutes. At 170,000 square feet it is apparently the "largest retractable, stainless steel dome roof in the world" - although I doubt there's much competition for the title.

Mellon Arena

Thanks: Marcin, Sean Sims, Sixf00t4, RJW, steve fernie