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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

At the opening ceremony the performers sang "we'll never get wet" - and the roof opened to a drenching rain. Rogers Centre at 1 Blue Jays Way, at the foot of the CN Tower in downtown Toronto, opened on 3 June 1989 as SkyDome, the first major stadium in North America with a fully functional retractable roof. Architects Rod Robbie and Michael Allen patented the system: four panels weighing 11,000 tons covering 339,343 square feet, two sliding laterally and one rotating around the bowl to nest in ...