The positive feedback on that has been incredible. “It really complements what’s going on on the field of play. “Anywhere you are in the building, you can engage the board, whether you’re sitting down low and looking at the inside of the far board or you’re sitting up higher in the seating bowl and being able to look directly on,” Gannon said. It is the largest one ever created in sports, weighing 2.2 million pounds and featuring 70,000 square feet of digital LED. Then there’s the videoboard, which stretches across both ends of the stadium underneath the roof. At night, it is illuminated with LED lighting and includes messages such as, “Los Angeles, Host of Super Bowl LVI, SoFi Stadium.”
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The architecture of the roof includes a metal skin that goes over the structure. So with temperatures forecast Sunday to be in the 80s, it might not feel that hot underneath the roof. But Gannon said the ETFE provides an element of protection from the sun, which can keep temperatures down in the stands and on the field, sometimes by about 10 degrees. The roof, with the ETFE panels, lets in lots of natural light, and gives the feeling that the game is being played in an outdoor stadium without a covering.
The landscaping around the building is incredible.” “I think the roof, the scale of the roof, I think the architecture of the roof, the thoughtfulness of the design, and then the LED system on the roof that lights up. “I think certainly the indoor-outdoor nature is unique to Los Angeles,” he said. He starts out by talking about how the NFL classifies it as an outdoor stadium since, while there is a clear roof over the field, the sides are open above the stands. He noted that the closest seats are the equivalent of 20 rows from the field, which is the nearest of any NFL stadium.Īsked to name what he considered the most unique aspect of the stadium, Gannon can’t come up with just one thing. Gannon, though, said SoFi Stadium also is intimate. “The size of it, it’s huge,” said Vikings linebacker Nick Vigil, who played last season for the Chargers. But that later was changed, and Super Bowl LVI will be held at the new venue on Feb. Super Bowl LV originally was awarded to SoFi Stadium for February 2021. The stadium originally was to have opened in 2019 but delays pushed it back to 2020. Kroenke, the stadium’s owner and developer, bought land in 2014 at Hollywood Park, which once was used as a horse racing track, and moved the Rams out West from St. For Los Angeles, you had to do something special, and that’s SoFi Stadium.” “What’s more Los Angeles? The story is what Stan Kroenke has created and delivered here. “Here we are, we’re sitting here in a stadium in the heart of Los Angeles and you can see the Hollywood sign, you can see Malibu, the Santa Monica Mountains, you can see Catalina Island,” said Jason Gannon, managing director of SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park, who conducted the tour along with Kristi Mexia, senior director and head of corporate communications for the company. And the views from parts of SoFi are hard to beat. On Friday, the Pioneer Press was given a tour of SoFi Stadium, and differences between the stadiums became clear immediately.
And the entire roof at SoFi Stadium is made of ETFE.
In a 2016 interview with the Pioneer Press, Rams owner Stan Kroenke, the impetus behind the building of SoFi, said he got some inspiration after visiting U.S. The most noticeable similarity is the use of ethylene tetraflouroethylene (ETFE), a fluorine-based clear plastic that covers half the roof at U.S.
Bank Stadium, which cost $1.1 billion to build and was designed by HKS Architects, the same firm that did SoFi Stadium. Vikings fans will see a few similarities to U.S. It should feel like somewhat of a home game.” “But the Chargers are a lot better now, so if I were a gambling man, which I am, I’d say it will be at least 50-50 on Sunday and I’d even push it to 60 percent Vikings fans. “I would say it was 80 to 90 percent purple everywhere,” said Rich Young, 42, a Miami resident but a Woodbury native and avid Vikings fan who attended that game and will be on hand for Sunday’s game. In December 2019, the Vikings beat the Chargers 39-10 at Dignity Health Sports Park, their temporary and tiny stadium in Carson, and the bulk of the 25,446 fans on hand were there for the Vikings. The Vikings will make their first visit to 70,000-seat SoFi, which at a cost of $5 billion is the most expensive stadium ever built, to face the Chargers. But they have come out in droves this season to the luxurious new venue, home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, and Vikings fans might take it over on Sunday. It opened last year but no fans could attend due to the coronavirus pandemic. The one in Los Angeles, SoFi Stadium, actually is in suburban Inglewood. “This will be the best one until the one in Los Angeles,” Grant said.
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