Vast Shanghai Stadium Builds Motion LED Into Seating Bowl Canopy

September 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes

Giant LED displays at new or upgraded sports and entertainment stadiums have grown increasingly column, with the most noteworthy examples to date the halos suspended over the playing surfaces in Atlanta and at LA’s SoFi Stadium. But I haven’t seen a stadium done with LED the way it’s been applied at the renovated 80,000-set Shanghai Stadium in Guess Where.

There is 90,000 sq. meters of semi-transparent mesh LED used as the inner part of the canopy over the seating bowl – used not as the main replay and information surface, but as complementary and somewhat ambient visuals.

The LED and the custom steel structure was put together by Sansi, which is based in the area and is known in the US as SNA Displays.

I couldn’t find any photos, but did a screen grab for the photo above (crappy, I know). This Linkedin post has a video that shows the motion visuals.