1936 – Olympic Stadium, Rome, Italy
Stadio Olimpico is the is the home of both A.S. Roma and S.S. Lazio, as well as of the Italian national football team.
1976 – Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec
Architect: Roger Tallibert
Designed for the 1976 Olympic Games, the Olympic Stadium was not completed on time due to a strike by construction workers.
1983 – East Stand, Lansdowne Road Stadium, Dublin
Replacing the old East Stand which was constructed in 1927, the new East Stand cost £4 million and held thirteen thousand providing ten thousand extra seats over the previous capacity.
1989 – Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Architect: Robbie/Young + Wright Architects
The Rogers Centre (formerly the Skydome) is the home of the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club,
1999 – Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Architect: HOK + LOBB Partnership
The Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, used primarily for rugby union and football home internationals.
2000 – National Stadium, Abbotstown, Co. Dublin
Architect: Scott Tallon Walker
Proposal led by An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to build a National Stadium and Sports Campus at Abbotstown.
2008 – Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick
Architect: Murray O’Laoire Architects
The design process related to the redevelopment of Thomond Park extends back to 2003 with a request to examine significantly increasing the existing 11,091 capacity stadium.
2010 – Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Architects: Scott Tallon Walker & Populous
Aviva Stadium, previously called the Lansdowne Road Stadium, hosted its first game of international rugby in 1878.
Gilroy McMahon Architects: Croke Park Stadium, Dublin
If sport is, as some contend, a form of religious devotion, then Croke Park, rising above the capital, is the gleaming cathedral of the new Ireland.
