Old Bc Place Roof

May 17 2019 bc place in vancouver canada has been transformed into a year round open air facility with an innovative retractable roof featuring sefar architecture s tenara architectural fabric.

Old bc place roof.

Gone is the famous air suspended dingy domed mushroom cap in it s place is the new crown of suspension beams holding up a new retractable roof. It s an increase at odds with a cost estimate released by. The new roof became fully operational in 2011. In 2014 the cost was 348 096.

The footage is very choppy as it was filmed. Fabritec structures was awarded the tensile roof project back in december 2009 reaching substantial completion of the job in november 2011. Maintenance cost in 2010 with the old roof was 152 439. The whitecaps were granted entry to mls in march 2009 and began play in march 2011 at a temporary stadium on the old empire stadium site while the challenging work continued on the new bc place.

That stunning retractable roof was built by iuoe local 115 members. Bc place is a multi purpose stadium located at the north side of false creek in vancouver british columbia canada it is owned and operated by the bc pavilion corporation pavco a crown corporation of the province. Place say repairs to the stadium s damaged roof are going well and they hope to reinflate the massive teflon coated fiberglass fabric bubble within a week. On sept 30 2011 just before the kick off for the bc lions and edmonton eskimos football game the new roof at bc place was opened for the first time.

Skip to main content. Here are a few photos showing the evolution of construction by iuoe local 115 on bc place s retractable roof. The retractable roof has turned bc place into a year round open air facility and serves as an architectural signature for the canadian province of british columbia. The renovated facility is once again an iconic architectural landmark for the province.

It seems that just the concrete shell is all that remains of the old bc place and even then much of it has been torn away and replaced with glass.