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Investors Group Field in Winnipeg is Canada’s newest stadium. It was designed by Raymond S C Wan Architect. Photo credit: Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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The renewal of Frank Clair Stadium in Ottawa is part of a larger urban plan encompassing the Lansdowne Park.
Image credit: CannonDesign.
within our Prairie Provinces, and the very fl at city is contrasted by the undulating form of the stadium’s wave-like roof structure. Investors Group Field has 33,500 fi xed seats with the ability to expand to 40,000 for the Grey
Cup.The stadium includes a number of lounges and amenity spaces along with 47 private suites situated on both the east and west sides of the bowl. The overall project cost for the stadium is C$190 million and was funded by the Province of Manitoba, the City of Winnipeg, and the University of Manitoba.
Investors Group Field is the home of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the University’s Manitoba Bisons, and is operated by the Blue Bombers organisation.
Ottawa is Canada’s national capital and, in 2014 will be home of the Ottawa Redbacks. The team will play out of a refurbished and expanded Frank Clair Stadium. The renewal of the stadium is part of a larger urban plan encompassing the Lansdowne Park, and will see mixed use development
including residential and commercial development. The site is on the bank of the Rideau Canal which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
This project is about renewal – for the Canadian Football League, the Frank Clair Stadium, and Lansdowne Park. The original stadium has the standard seating on both sides of the fi eld, the north seating featuring a unique, only- in-Canada design – a spectator arena under the seating. The north seating was upgraded and will have 13,300 renovated seats along with an additional 500 at fi eld level. The original south grandstand was demolished and will be replaced with a new one with 8,886 seats plus a club/suites level with 1,214 seats and 24 private suites.
The new south grandstand will feature one of the most iconic elements for any stadium anywhere – a wood screen rising from a berm along the Rideau Canal and encompassing the full south elevations of the new seating. This stunning feature brings an exceptionally sensitive treatment of a large and
Investors Group Field
functional mass. Overall cost for the new stadium is C$106.9 million.
Regina is another major city within Canada’s Prairie Provinces and is probably the most passionate when it comes to their football team. The city is in the process of developing a new 33,000-seat outdoor stadium on the fairgrounds of Evraz Place, very close to the location of their existing facility, Mosaic Stadium. It had tried several years ago to build an enclosed stadium in their downtown core, and while this was a very exciting vision, assembling the land proved to be too diffi cult.
The city is currently working with designers Pattern Design out of the United Kingdom, in association with local architects P3A. The concept developed at this time is more a vision of what the stadium could be. The overall project cost is C$278 million and comes from the Provincial Government, the City of Regina, and the Saskatchewan Roughriders football team. The project will be delivered though a Design Build Finance (DBF) model, with the management team at Evraz Place operating the facility. As a result, not all of the components of the new stadium have been confi rmed at this point. The project is scheduled for completion in time for the 2017-18 season.
This is a particularly exciting time for Canadian football, and the beginning of a new generation of facilities they will be calling home. It seems that while Canadian winters can be legendary, there is still the appetite for new outdoor facilities.
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