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By Jackie Craven, About.com Guide to Architecture since 1999

Even the Stadium is Super

Friday February 1, 2008
University of Phoenix Stadium Even if you don't follow football, you'll want to tune into Super Bowl XLII this Sunday. The New York Giants will play the New England Patriots in a stadium like none other in the world.

With an innovative facade designed by architect Peter Eisenman, the University of Phoenix Stadium has a fabric roof and a 94,000-square-foot playing field that rolls in and out at whim. And the stadium's odd shape? Modeled after a barrel cactus, he says.

Press Photo courtesy of the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee

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