The Making of SkyDome - 1988

Created in 1988 by RAN International Architects and Engineers. Lead by Rod Robbie, Michael Allen and Bill Neish.

[@iwantthe80sback59]

It’ll always be Skydome to me.

[@spellmanpat8233]

was here for wrestlemania six best time ever greetings from BUFFALO ny

[@esven4419]

What an awesome documentary! I want to see more of these about other stadiums.

[@cheesyrider6914]

Man has the skyline changed

[@Edcabraltv]

I put steal together on the walk way. My dad worked on the whole dome project. Good memories😢

[@deanwille8130]

I’ve never been there but it’s beautiful to look at! Hope to visit it someday!

[@effend446]

Now, more than 30 years later, SkyDome is considered obsolete. I say it’s still futuristic. Gonna be a sad day when it comes crumbling down.

[@robmausser]

Rogers just invested 300 million into upgrades, with a 20 year payback. Meaning it will be around for at least another 20 years. I think if they invested in a real grass field, and translucent panels on the dome that let natural light in when closed, it could be around for even longer.

[@suave-rider]

@@robmausser 300m is spare change

[@josephreynolds969]

Both Wrestlemania 6 and Wrestlemania 18 was really awesome in this stadium.

[@funkydung.]

went to six

[@irafinkelstein423]

@@funkydung. was the ring over 2nd base?

[@funkydung.]

@@irafinkelstein423 I have no idea I was way up in the rafters in the 500 level and got in late

[@SuperStrik9]

I love the Dome. The best thing about it is you're guaranteed a game.

[@MrTopsoil911]

Name should have stayed to skydome

[@barbaraleszczynski2214]

nigel mahabir Absolutely right! I thought the same thing and very saddened when it changed. SkyDome just had a better and unique feel to it. Sad!

[@billiscool7647]

Agreed, but obviously, rogers has to blurt their name wherever they land, so sick how they also want to destroy this amazing place, and the history it holds within it..

[@74Voyeur]

I still call it the SkyDome, like I call the arena down the street, the ACC, NOT the current name.

[@stephanelabelle9333]

What I like about the Skydome is: "It Works". The way the roof operates is just awesome. Built at 570M (1989 dollars), on time and on budget, I think it should send a clear message/reality check to Montrealers, who are stuck with an ugly, non-functional, non-operational (about 20 events a year, when the weather is good) and costly white elephant, the Big Owe, build at 770M (about 2B in today's dollars) by an French architect from oversea, and still unfinished when the 1976 Olympic games began. It took more than a decade to complete the tower and install the roof, which soon ripped apart. I think it's the only stadium with a roof, where a baseball game had to be postponed due to the rain. Oh, and the Big Owe non-retractable must be replaced, again, for perhaps 400M. Long live the Skydome!

[@tylerkochman1007]

Skydome was WAYYYY over budget (it had originally planned to only cost $150 million. Also, opened two months behind schedule.

[@Roller11111]

​@@tylerkochman1007oh no! Not two months.

[@tylerkochman1007]

@@Roller11111 “on time and on budget”. It was neither, hence why I noted that

[@gregmchale5011]

the skydome budget was increased a few times. the NDP forced redesign, lots of steel had to be removed, changed as they added a Hotel and GYM... the NDP over ran budget... where does anyone think it was on time and budget??? it is a beautiful place visited many times over the years.

[@RicoBalentine]

Idk about Roger's Centre. It'll always remain the Skydome to me.....

[@ryanpotter9373]

This stadium puts the big OlympicStadium in Montreal to shame. That place was a dump from the start.

[@travisfirmage8620]

I still have my dad’s aluminum lunchbox they gave him while he worked on the sky dome

[@munenorikawasaki7796]

And then Rogers had to go ahead and ruin everything like they always do and name it the Rogers Centre...

[@romulusempire2425]

Well said, The Sky Dome Will always be My Dome. Go Blue Jay's!!!

[@batman1169]

And got it for $25 million. Nice deal

[@billiscool7647]

@@batman1169 And now wants to demolish it for more money... So sick

[@billiscool7647]

That's what rogers does best, ruining it for the sports fans. I knew this was gonna happen once they entered the Canadian sports industry, and now look they've actually done it, somehow someway they use Canadian sports as a money-making machine and ruin the hearts of Canadian sports fans. They don't care about us! They just want money, and now they want to demolish this amazing building that has brought us so many memories but nope. Screw rogers...

[@mikeallen5865]

No, it’s just going to be renovated. Only the concourse and hotel won’t be touched.

[@mrblack9791]

the solid rock bar gave me a danish lemone of chery choice as a kid thanks

[@jonstefanik9400]

Vince McMahon wasted no time in getting a WrestleMania there when it wasn't even a year old.

[@toptenguy1]

And he did the same thing for the United Center in Chicago (SummerSlam 1994), Met Life Stadium for WM 29 and Levy's Stadium for WM 31. Actually very smart of him!

[@richiebee1984]

@@stonecoldpes6 SKY SOME OPENED ON JUNE 5TH,1989.WM6 WAS APRIL 1ST,1990

[@Davidjon1946]

Just did the same thing for Wrestlemania 37 to be held at the Chargers and Rams new stadium

[@rogerlambert9316]

Billionaire Vince ruined professional wrestling.

[@clubhouseme]

Toronto used to be a great city, but now the inmates run the asylum

[@danieldangelo7937]

Wow It's 29 years ago Where did the time go?

[@barrydimmock5771]

Amazing how they tore out all the seats to make it more fan friendly? What happened?

[@flxgld7096]

What I wouldn't give to own that model of this place

[@Totallyrealmessi23]

Ladies and gentlemen men who’s ready for the 4 town concert the next one

[@goodtimes474]

ah great memories :)

[@funkydung.]

do they still use the ice rink

[@arricammarques1955]

Lorlea Steels Limited, Bramalea manufactured the roof deck.

[@glenmccarthy8482]

Back when construction sites where less regulated and more enjoyable to work on.

[@SpruceMoose-iv8un]

Put your safety vest on even though your working in a highrise with no machines around.

[@good_teanice_house6789]

@2:01 a country and western bar? Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hawlikd]

Sky dome never posted a profit, and was sold to Rogers penny on the dollar back in 2000.

[@brianstample9227]

HOME OF WRESTLEMANIA 18 !

[@Davidjon1946]

And 6

[@scotterman7951]

Did The Toronto Raptors Played There

[@dickensonfarms]

Yup until they built the Air Canada Centre (now Scotiabank Arena)

[@sinceninetyeightysixgustof8122]

at first I though kanye west flashing lights was about to start playing

[@greyarea3804]

Still say it should have been called the "Conn dome"

[@zbvv002]

gotta love Canada

[@suave-rider]

it's not even a country

[@andrewf9423]

​@@suave-riderWhat?

[@mrblack9791]

13:09 left side screen ... rail way ?

[@IamTedV]

Ah, the good old Con-Dome! (In honour of the screwing that the public got when the government screwed them by almost giving it to Rogers!)

[@lastlaff2777]

Except that it DIDN'T open on time and ran WAY over budget.

[@mrblack9791]

1:23 slowmo cool

[@mrblack9791]

looks like a satellite dish hmm

[@thefozzybear]

It's 2021 and The Jays are getting a new stadium. They want to demolish the skydome.

[@billiscool7647]

Disgusting, gross! If rogers really wants to go through with this I will be sick to my stomach. So much history and memories made within the stadium and rogers wants to throw it all away. Wanna know why? Because they don't care about us, they don't care about our city, and they sure as hell don't care about the blue jays! All they want is more damn money and I hate it!

[@johnadamski5690]

@@billiscool7647 SHUT UP LOSER

[@billiscool7647]

@@johnadamski5690 Rogers fan boy?

[@shermklump6143]

Lol this video is 80s as fuck.

[@iwantthe80sback59]

Ahem, something wrong with that? :)

[@absumption894]

just like HIMYM....the 70's came to Canada in the 80's

[@주쾌식]

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[@billiscool7647]

Wanna know something that makes me sick? Rogers wants to destroy this beautiful piece of history just so they could fill their pockets with more cash. So sad

[@johnadamski5690]

shut up.... we deserve an actual ballpark in toronto , not this monstrosity which is such an eyesore and does not even have the feel of a ballpark. The concrete jungle is what Assdome should be named. No real grass, no natural light when the roof is shut. WE NEED A NEW STADIUM!

[@billiscool7647]

@@johnadamski5690 Clearly you don't know the history in the dome idiot

[@deptroro5859]

@@johnadamski5690 Dumbass, us toronto fans dont claim you LOSER

[@hawlikd]

This whole video is what you call propaganda!

[@andrewf9423]

How?