For the past nine years, Nicole Gulmi, 34, who works in sales at Bloomingdale’s in Melville, N.Y., has attended the United States Open tennis tournament with her mother.
It’s a special treat, so they usually splurge on tickets to Arthur Ashe, the largest stadium featuring the biggest matches. But this year, instead of using their Ashe tickets, the mother/daughter duo spent their time in another stadium: Louis Armstrong.
Armstrong’s completion was the last stage of a five-year, $600-million-dollar renovation of the U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, in Flushing, Queens. The brand-new stadium has a retractable roof and is naturally ventilated, featuring overlapping terra cotta panels that circulate the air between decks.