The American Airlines Center is an arena located in the Victory Park neighborhood near downtown Dallas, Texas. The facility is used for hockey games, basketball games, football games and concerts. The American Airlines center opened on 27 July 2001, with the largest ribbon cutting ceremony, duly supported by the Guinness Book of Records. The first event occurred the next day with an Eagles concert and on the next night, the American Airlines Center arena hosted the last show of Michael Flatley's Feet of Flames tour.
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The exterior of the American Airlines Center is made of brick, limestone and granite, while the signature arches provide an open arm welcome to Dallas' citizens. The American Airlines Center has four entrances, one on each side of the building for easy access. The north and south ends of the American Airlines Center building features dramatic outdoor balconies at the Platinum Level with spectacular views of downtown looking over the public plaza and cityscape.
The American Airlines Center's seating bowl features a one-of-a-kind retractable seating system. However, the most unique feature of the seating bowl is the roof structure. The 150,000 square foot roof is supported only at its four corners, but in order to resist the forces generated by the weight of the roof, columns are tied together at the corners by a series of steel rods embedded in the floor of the upper concourse.