Setting the stage: U2’s ‘The Claw’ gets an encore at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

Workers install U2’s 360° Tour stage — formerly referred to as “The Claw” — at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. The stage will become the centerpiece of the aquarium’s outdoor plaza. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News

Workers install U2’s 360° Tour stage — formerly referred to as “The Claw” — at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper on Tuesday. The 190-ton, 165-foot-tall stage will become the centerpiece of the aquarium’s outdoor plaza. According to Brent Andersen, the aquarium’s founder and CEO, the stage has undergone numerous structural modifications since it was transported to the site last winter. This includes numerous large steel frames being redesigned to handle Utah’s snow loads. These modifications also involved making the structure more windproof and earthquake proof. The plaza and its accompanying stage are phase one of the aquarium’s ongoing renovation project. Phase two will be the aquarium’s expanded Science Learning Campus, which will be 80,000 square feet, with a five-story Asian cloud forest habitat.

from Deseret News https://ift.tt/2nCTfKg