Olympic Stadium Montreal Retractable Roof

His vision for the structure included a massive concrete dome with a retractable roof held up by cables.

Olympic stadium montreal retractable roof.

Montreal s olympic stadium will get new roof. Stade olympique is a multi purpose stadium in montreal canada located at olympic park in the hochelaga maisonneuve district of the city. A new olympic stadium roof won t be retractable but will possibly allow in natural light according to a call for tenders released by the olympic installation board on tuesday. The venue was the first major team sports stadium in north america with a functional fully retractable roof montreal s olympic stadium also had a retractable roof but due to operational issues it was replaced with a permanent roof.

The cost of a retractable roof on olympic stadium which will be in place when montreal hosts soccer games for the 2026 world cup will be between 200 million and 300 million. Olympic stadium will have a retractable roof in time for 2026 world cup money for new olympic stadium roof won t sit well with baseball fans. The olympic stadium s roof has 3 400 rips in it compared to about 20 in 2010. Even then movement of the roof was impossible in high wind conditions and technical problems plagued the facility.

Built in the mid 1970s as the main venue for the 1976 summer olympics it is nicknamed the big o a reference to both its name and to the doughnut shape of the permanent component of the stadium s roof. Roger taillibert designer of montreal s olympic stadium dead at 93. The stadium in montréal is elliptical in plan and the grandstands are covered by a cantilevered concrete roof which runs around the full periphery the retractable kevlar membrane roof of the olympic stadium has an anticlastic shape with 26 suspension points and 17 edge cables anchored at the concrete roof.