New Olympic Stadium Roof

This week the olympic stadium s website announced it is now accepting company pitches to design the stadium s new roof.

New olympic stadium roof.

Built in the mid 1970s as the main venue for the 1976 summer olympics it is nicknamed the big o a reference to both its name and to the doughnut shape of the permanent component of the stadium s roof. A new olympic stadium roof won t be retractable but will possibly allow in natural light according to a call for tenders released by the olympic installation board on tuesday. Montreal s olympic stadium will get new roof caq government says much maligned stadium is getting a new lease on life with the organization running it being given more power to run the place as. With canada the united states and mexico serving as joint hosts of the 2026 world cup montreal s olympic stadium is expected to be among the venues that will stage matches.

At twice the size. The government of quebec is. The roof of the new stadium has been particularly problematic from an engineering perspective as it requires the construction of two steel arches 370 metres 1 210 ft long. The quebec government had committed to a new 250 million roof for montreal s olympic stadium by 2023 but now officials are aiming for 2024.

Even after design changes the stadium was estimated to cost over 300 billion yen more than three times the cost of the olympic stadium in london and more than five times. Stade olympique is a multi purpose stadium in montreal canada located at olympic park in the hochelaga maisonneuve district of the city. Media caption up above the stadium s new roof structure. Work has begun to install a new roof on the olympic stadium as part of a 190m transformation of the east london venue.

Montreal s olympic stadium s roof has over 8 000 rips and costs up to 1 million a year to maintain. The new roof covers every seat in the stadium and has been designed to improve acoustics and heighten the spectator experience reflecting the noise of the terraces focussing the sound and projecting it towards the pitch. In order to preserve some of the olympic stadium s unique identity the iconic triangular lighting tower design that used. But now montrealers are trading that bill for a new one.