Montreal Olympic Stadium Retractable Roof

Rio the second roof for the olympic stadium in montreal designed by birdair is non retractable and features 93 panels of teflon covered with fiberglass resting on a lattice of steel cables.

Montreal olympic stadium retractable roof.

3 at the age of 93. The completion date for the olympic stadium s planned 250 million roof replacement is being pushed back a year officials say to make sure they get it right this time. Wsp was hired in april 2018 and sbp last august. Taillibert the french architect who designed the stadium to host the 1976 montreal olympics passed away on oct.

In tabling a bill giving the olympic installations board a new name. The stadium was designed by french architect roger taillibert to be an elaborate facility featuring a retractable roof which was to be opened and closed by cables suspended from a huge 175 metre 574 ft tower the tallest inclined structure in the world and the sixth tallest structure in montreal. The roof is lowered from a 168 m high inclined tower on fully locked cables the suspension points being held in shape by connecting cables. The first two roofs did.

Tower and cables for retractable roof at the montreal olympic stadium olympic stadium in montreal quebec was slated to be the first outdoor retractable roof stadium at its debut for the 1976 summer olympics. 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. However plagued by construction problems the roof was not installed until 1987 and was not retractable until 1988. His vision for the structure included a massive concrete dome.