O2 World

Infobox Stadium
stadium_name=O₂ World


location=Berlin, Germany
broke_ground= 2005
opened= 2008
owner=Anschutz Entertainment Group
operator=Anschutz Entertainment Group
tenants=ALBA Berlin, Eisbären Berlin
seating_capacity=Basketball: 16,000
Ice hockey: 14,200
Concerts: 17,000

O₂ World is a multi-use indoor arena in Berlin, Germany that opened in September 2008. Developed by Anschutz Entertainment Group, it was named O₂ World when Telefonica O₂ Germany purchased the naming rights.

With a capacity of 17,000 people [ [http://www.o2world.de/die_arena/daten___fakten.page.htm Data and facts about O₂ World] 30 September 2008 de icon] , it is home to the Eisbären Berlin ice hockey club and is used for ice hockey, basketball and handball matches as well as concerts. The surrounding area will be filled with various entertainment venues including a cinema, a casino, a hotel and various bars and restaurants. [http://www.de.o2.com/ext/standard/index?page_id=9776&state=online&style=standard&popup=0 Startschuss für die O₂ World in Berlin] , 27 April 2006 de icon] The arena will host the 2008-09 Euroleague Final four. [ [http://www.euroleague.net/item/31718 Euroleague Basketball, AEG Announce Global Partnership Agreement] ]

The LED construction grid on the facade of the arena will be equipped with more than 300,000 LED clusters on a 12m high and approximately 120m wide section of the semicircular 105° glass facade with a total area of more than 1,440 m². Light pixels, consisting of two groups of 19 LEDs (colour palette: 16.7 million RGB colours) will be attached to the vertical bracing of the facade. The vertical distances are 0.20m and the horizontal distances between the axes are planned to be 0.90m.

The first band to play at the O₂World was Metallica on the 12th of September. In late 2008 the O2 World will host concerts by Elton John, Alicia Keys, Leonard Cohen and Coldplay among others. In the beginning of 2009 Tina Turner is going to play two shows in the arena with fifteen more shows to follow in other German cities. These dates are already sold-out and are in support of her "".

ee also

*The O₂ arena (London)
*O₂ Arena (Prague)
*O₂ (Dublin)

References

External links

* [http://www.o2-world.de/ www.o2-world.de] official site O₂ World (including a webcam)