This is what the SkyDome looked like when it was under construction

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The SkyDome is a central figure on the city's skyline and its most identifiable object when photographed from space. It officially opened back on June 3 1989.

Here's a photographic look back at its construction and opening.

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The Railway Lands pre-SkyDome

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Under construction from the CN Tower. Photo by ~EvidencE~

Photo by cliffordstead

SkyDome steel work

Image via the Stadium Page

Ad for SkyDome in 1988

Almost Done. Photo via the Toronto Archives

Done! SkyDome postcard from 1990

Photo via the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center

Check out this timelapse of the construction of the SkyDome, which also features some awesome sequences of the first tests on the moving roof.

Lead photo by

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