El Poliedro de Caracas

The Poliedro De Caracas ("Caracas Polyhedron Arena") is an indoor sports arena, located on the grounds adjacent to Hipodromo La Rinconada Horse Racing Track, in Caracas, Venezuela. It was designed by architect Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc., in Raleigh, NC, in 1971. However, the geodesic dome was not concluded, until 1974, when US firm Charter Industries, along with Synergetics, Inc. designed and manufactured the geodesic dome in Raleigh, NC. It is housed beneath a geodesic dome, with a capacity of 20,000 people for concerts and 13,500 people for sporting events. The arena is for multi purpose uses such as music concerts, sporting events like as basketball, volleyball, boxing, ice skating shows, and for circuses, and trade expositions and exhibitions, like auto shows, expomuebles (furniture) and others. Some rock concerts had to be held outside the covered area due to large audiences like Guns N' Roses in 1992 with over 45.000 attendees. Famous rock bands from around the world have performed live in its grounds like Queen on Sept 27th 1981, The Police July 29th, 30th 1981, Marillion Sept 30th, Oct 1st 1992, REO Speedwagon, Van Halen, Foreigner, Cyndi Lauper, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden and many many more.