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north america's sports 6 venue boom!
Katie McIntyre highlights a small number of the 130+ sports venue developments planned or already underway in North America and details some of the latest developments.
FOOTBALL HOMES 10
Canadian cities and their football teams are busy building new stadiums with modern comforts for enthusiastic fans.
LEVI’S® STADIUM 48 After nearly 17 years of starts and stops, the $1.3 billion
stadium will open next August for the NFL San Francisco 49ers. Steve Traiman gets insight on the game plan.
WELCOME 4
FACILITY WATCH facility watch stadiums 12
facility watch ARENAS 16 Cover: The Golden State Warriors’ updated design of its proposed
sports and entertainment pavilion includes the new privately-funded 18,000-seat NBA arena on which MANICA is leading the design.
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Advertisers’ Index 360 Architecture
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AECOM 53 Geiger Engineers HKS Architects
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Lab.gruppen 43 Manica Architecture Musco Lighting One Systems Inc
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Shaler 39 SMA 31 Walter P Moore
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SHOWCASE ARCHITECTURE
ATLANTA CHALLENGES 20 STADIUM DESIGN CONVENTION
Marcus Jacobs reveals the behind the scenes processes as Atlanta’s New Stadium Project settles on a radical design.
THE REDISCOVERY OF 24 a LOST ART
Where does architecture end and art begin? Alex
Thomas and Paul Hyett of HKS Sports and Entertainment Group investigate.
ARENA ON THE PIER 28 The designs of a new arena in San Francisco for the
Golden State Warriors NBA team have evolved to meet the requirements of a complex range of stakeholders.
LIGHTING A SPIRIT OF INNOVATION 32
Musco ushers in a new era of LED lighting in sports arenas. MAINTENANCE
Shaler’s solutions to 36 ice rink links
Shaler’s solutions to ice rink and industrial refrigeration system leaks.
SOUND SYSTEMS
THE NEW KING OF STADIUM 40 and ARENA AUDIO
Swedish company
Lab.gruppen’s PLM Series is the
‘go to’ platform for an increasing number of stadium solutions worldwide.
PORTABLE SOUND 44
The Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis has used an imaginative approach to add high output sound for music playback with real impact.
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