If anyone is interested in what those black strips of "carpet" on the stadium floor are, they are part of the new turf installation. The black material is known as the E-layer, and is designed to provide impact absorption below the fibre and rubber overlay.
An obvious observation once inside the stadium. From the exterior, the roof opening looks quite small. But once inside the bowl I realized that indeed the opening is quite large. As large as the playing field itself.
The reason the opening looks smaller than anticipated by many is that the window walls tilt outward making the roof quite a bit larger around the new perimeter.
Still can't figure out how the roof is going to lower for the Whitecaps game
If you look at the photo in your post #3555, the frame that holds the continuous electronic screen will also house the retractable curtain which forms a "second roof" for concealing the upper tiers. There are some renderings a few pages back showing this.
Looking at the main roof, I'm not sure how white those fixed panels will get, but I sure hope they lighten up to the same shade as the retractable fabric or it'll look weird.
Does anyone know what will happen with the gaps between the panels?
I assume there is more fabric to be added but I'm not sure how that would work with the verticle supporting cables.
From what I heard at the open house, I believe the panels still need to be stretched, maybe a few times. They have to give the panels time to adjust - they can't do it all in one go. Once they get it to where they want, they'll seal it over.
Good news...Turns out that the brown steel frame holding the LED ribbon board is entirely temporary; it's being used to support the workers and their equipment and will be removed once the board is completed.
As you can see in the image below, the video ribbon board is attached to the face of the upper fascia without compromising site lines of the first few rows in the upper bowl. The inner curtain system for the "second roof" will sit neatly behind the video board.
Is there any reason why they chose semi-randomized red and grey seats? Not a fan.
A lot of the interior stadium design looks great now but will look dated a lot quicker than the original conservative/boring design.
Hmm, the original design was neither conservative nor (originally) boring... it was a state of the art, cutting-edge design at the time, and matched very well with the "Tomorrowland" look of Expo 86. It is telling that you find it conservative and boring and timeless now. :-) The truth is simply that it reflected its era. Perhaps the same will be said of the retrofitted stadium after another 25 years.
Is there any reason why they chose semi-randomized red and grey seats? Not a fan.
A lot of the interior stadium design looks great now but will look dated a lot quicker than the original conservative/boring design.
Those are the old blue seats...they'r just covered in red and gray garbage bags.
Personally, when my butt's in a seat I dont care what colour it is; and if the Lions or the Caps ever have a real seaon the place will be full and even viewers at home wont be able to see what colour they are.
Truthfully, studies have shown that by using multicolour seating, the stadium looks more to capacity then with seats all the same colour. Good from a home viewer perspective.
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