Posted Dec 30, 2016, 2:57 AM
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New L.A. Rams stadium aims to be an indoor-outdoor entertainment experience
Think of the Los Angeles Rams’ new home in Inglewood as California’s largest indoor-outdoor entertainment space. But instead of a restaurant opening onto a dining patio or a retailer spilling onto a street, this design includes a 70,000-seat stadium, 6,000-seat performance venue and an open plaza embracing the breeze-filled Southern California air, but still fully covered from the elements by a translucent ETFE canopy.
“Natural breezes flow through,” Williams says. “It is very common in Southern California, the indoor-outdoor experience. We have done that same design mentality and scaled it up to three million square feet.”
“It just makes that experience going through the site to the stadium a much higher level,” Williams says. “It is not just a sea of concrete, but is landscaped and terraced.”
“What grew out of that was one of the neatest features of the whole design,” he says. “We have peeled back and terraced around the perimeter, around entry points, so when you are coming in you have a heavily landscaped entry that blends its way into the building.”
And when the entire complex is complete, it will be the largest stadium site in the NFL.
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http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/12/29/los...dium-inglewood
Mark Williams, HKS lead architect on the project gives details about the world's most expensive stadium to be built
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