FEA TURE — CHRIST CHURCH ST ADIU M
POPULOUS
ELIXIR OF HOPE
and it means that we can again offer our visitors a chance to experience the fun and excitement of first-class rugby.”
New, Reused, Recycled Solution After the devastation of the major earthquake that struck Christchurch early in 2011, leaving 185 people dead and hundreds injured, Minister Brownlee said Christchurch Stadium is an important step towards the restoration of normality to have a venue that catered for first-class sporting matches and entertainment events. Sport is important to Cantabrians — they have the
most successful rugby union team in the country and in the history of the Super Rugby competition, with seven premierships and another three grand final appearances since 1996. But the city’s main sporting and entertain- ment venue, AMI Stadium, was among the buildings so badly damaged in last year’s earthquakes that it was unable to host any of the 2011 IRB Rugby World Cup matches. And its long term future remains undecided. The new 18,000-seat stadium, with two partially cov-
ered stands, will be the only outdoor venue for major sporting fixtures and concerts for the next few years. It will be flexible enough to be used for rugby league, soc- cer and concerts, and has the potential to increase its capacity to 25,000 for a major event such as a Rugby Test Match. The NZ$30m funding for the temporary stadium has been underwritten by the New Zealand Govern- ment, with support from the Christchurch City Council
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and New Zealand Rugby Union, together with sponsor- ship that included AMI securing the naming rights. The pitch is a fully drained professional quality field, and the turf has been laid, recycled, and harvested from the earthquake-damaged original AMI Stadium. The three temporary stands were built using galvanised steel tubes in a scaffold truss system, replacing two old stands now demolished. The roof consists of a white opaque fabric made of PVC, which is recyclable. Food and beverage facilities are on the four corners of the stadium and the venue is lit to broadcast stand- ards. Like the turf, much of the infrastructure has been recycled from other venues. There is temporary seating from Eden Park, where it is no longer required following the 2011 Rugby World Cup; stadium lights from Dune- din’s Carisbrook ground; along with toilet and food out- lets from Eden Park. Corporate boxes have also been installed into cus-
tom-designed, lightweight prefabricated buildings. This solution gives Christchurch time to properly plan for the long term future of its sporting facilities. When the future of AMI Stadium is eventually decided, the temporary sta- dium will also leave behind a valuable legacy in the way of a professional pitch and high quality lighting.
Looking Forward The new AMI Stadium, Canterbury’s only outdoor venue for major sporting and music events, is expected to have a life of between three and five years, and stadium architects Populous used fabric and graphics to embrace its tempo- rary nature and give it a special identity. Populous, which led the design of both the Eden Park redevelopment in
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