Built in 1971, architect Pier Luigi Nervi designed Scope Arena and to this day the venue remains the world’s largest reinforced thin-shell concrete dome. The venue’s concrete monolithic dome and twenty-four flying buttresses make it a popular, eye-catching and iconic landmark in downtown Norfolk. Scope Arena is the host to a wide variety of events and is currently home to the Norfolk Admirals hockey team, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, the MEAC Basketball Tournament, conventions, concerts, family shows and much more! Scope consists of a flexible main arena, modular exhibit halls and meeting rooms that can accommodate both small and large groups for private meetings, exhibits or conventions.