Neo Química Arena, formerly Arena Corinthians, is a stadium in Itaquera, São Paulo. Aníbal Coutinho of CDC in Rio de Janeiro was the architect, Gensler designed the interiors and Werner Sobek the roof. Corinthians operates it and Odebrecht was the main contractor. Groundbreaking was on May 30, 2011 and construction finished on April 15, 2014. The article gives May 10, 2014 as the opening, though it cites two dates. It names no style.
The building is rectangular, 267 by 228 meters and 43 meters tall, with west and east buildings under a roof on 48 trusses. It is mostly precast, with 17,500 cubic meters of concrete, glass facades and white ceramic tiles.
Capacity is 48,905. It has 89 luxury boxes and four scoreboards, one a 170 by 20 meter LED screen. Corinthians-Itaquera metro station is 500 meters away.
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