Proposed domed Brooklyn Dodgers stadium
Walter O'Malley and Buckminster Fuller examine the model for the stadium in November 1955 | |
| Coordinates | 40°41′00″N 73°58′36″W / 40.68333°N 73.97667°W |
|---|---|
| Owner | Brooklyn Dodgers |
| Operator | Brooklyn Dodgers |
| Capacity | 52,000 |
| Surface | grass |
| Construction | |
| Built | Never built |
| Opened | Would have been opened in 1960 |
| Architect | Buckminster Fuller |
| Tenants | |
| Brooklyn Dodgers | |
The Brooklyn Sports Center, in retrospect known as the Dodger Dome, was a proposed domed stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers, designed by Buckminster Fuller to replace Ebbets Field. Meant to keep the Dodgers in New York City, it was first announced in the early 1950s. The envisioned structure would have seated 52,000 people and would have been the first domed stadium in the world, opening roughly a decade before Houston's Astrodome. The Dodgers instead moved to Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles.
The unbuilt stadium, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, would have been located at the northeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, on the site of the Atlantic Terminal. It would have cost $6 million to build and been privately financed. The general area eventually did become a sports venue, because Barclays Center was built across the street to the south from the Atlantic Terminal, in neighboring Pacific Park.