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Stockholm Globe Arena
The Stockholm Globe Arena
Building Information
Name	Stockholm Globe Arena
Location	Stockholm
Country	Sweden
Architect	Svante Berg, Lars Vretblad
Completion Date	1989

The Stockholm Globe Arena or, in Swedish, Globen ("The Globe") is an arena in Stockholm, Sweden.

It is currently the largest hemispherical building in the world and took two and a half years to build. Shaped like a large golf ball, it has a diameter of 110 meters (361 feet) and an inner height of 85 meters (279 feet). The volume of the building is 600,000 cubic meters (21,188,800 cubic feet). It has seating capacity for 16,000 spectators for shows and concerts, and 14,119 for Ice Hockey. It represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the world's largest scale model of the Solar System.

Globen is primarily used for ice hockey, and is the former home arena of Djurgårdens IF and AIK, but these clubs still plays some of their games here. It opened in 1989 and seats (since 2005) 14,119 for ice hockey games, but is also used for musical performances as well as other sports than ice hockey, for example football. It is owned by FCA fastigheter.

In 2003 The Globen hosted some games of the European Basketball Championship. It has hosted the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships twice, in 1989 (for which it was built) and 1995, as well as some World Cup of Hockey games in 1996 and 2004. It has also been the venue for the NHL Challenge series, when teams from the NHL came to Sweden to play against Swedish teams: the Vancouver Canucks in 2000, the Colorado Avalanche in 2001 and the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2003. The arena has also hosted a couple of Monster Jam events, and the World Floorball Championships in 1996 and 2006. In 1989 it also hosted the European Men's Volleyball Championship.

Pope John Paul II held a mass in the arena in 1989 as the first pope to hold a mass in Sweden. Other notable appearances at the arena have included Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. As for concerts, acts such as Kiss, Bob Dylan, George Michael, Mariah Carey, The Rolling Stones, Roxette, Guns N' Roses, Bruce Springsteen, Britney Spears, Luciano Pavarotti, Black Sabbath, Simon and Garfunkel, U2, Shania Twain, R.E.M., Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Def Leppard, Rush, Aerosmith, Beyonce, Linkin Park, The Who, The Police and many more. The Eurovision Song Contest and MTV Europe Music Awards, were held there in 2000.

Most recently, the stadium was used for the finals of the Men's World Floorball Championship. In 1989, and every year since 2002, Globen Arena hosted the final of Melodifestivalen.

Construction stage photo of the MERO space frame.

Another construction photo.

• Stockholm Globe Arenas – website
• Stockholm Globe City
• Hockeyarenas.net entry

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Coordinates: 59°17′36.80″N, 18°04′59.65″E