This yr’s NFL Tremendous Bowl shall be hosted on the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, which was designed by Manica Structure to evoke the magnificence and energy of sports activities vehicles.
Opened in 2020, Manica Structure’s 62,000-seat stadium in Kansas Metropolis is dwelling to the NFL’s Raiders, who relocated from Oakland when the stadium was accomplished.
The stadium was initially deliberate for California as a result of Raiders proprietor Mark Davis needed the crew to maneuver to Los Angeles, however then misplaced out to different groups.
Manica Structure’s unique design needed to be tailored to satisfy the situations of Las Vegas with its excessive desert local weather.
“It was a redesign of the challenge,” Manica Structure founding director David Manica instructed Dezeen.
“It turned an indoor constructing, it turned an unique constructing for the Raiders. We put a roof over it and put in a retractable area that slid out – so so much has modified. He turned the order of the day for the Raiders.”
The shift in focus allowed the design to concentrate on the Raiders aesthetic and modern Las Vegas structure.
Manica mentioned a lot of the design was pushed by conversations his studio had with Davis and his group.
“[Davis] he needed to be trendy, he needed to be fashionable,” Manica mentioned. “He needed to look quick, livid and intimidating.”
The form of the stadium is cylindrical, with massive strips of black metallic and glass protecting the facade. It slopes barely in profile and has sloping strips of LED lights that create S-shaped strains throughout it.
In accordance with Manica, the glossy black exterior was designed to reflect the silver and black of the Raiders colours.
“Black sports activities vehicles impressed the design,” he mentioned.
“We appeared on the manner Maserati’s strains are to provide the strains of the constructing aerodynamic actions – a kind offers it motion.”
Past formal issues, the cruel surroundings of Las Vegas affected the design, with some questioning the effectiveness of a black glass facade within the desert.
“The reality is that the black glass was very useful when it got here to defending the constructing from daylight,” Manica mentioned.
“We have been additionally very cautious in regards to the quantity of shade we placed on the roof. So in some ways it was constructed particularly for the Vegas local weather.”
Lots of the constructing’s inside areas match the elegant, black-dominated look of the facade, and even the seats and particulars of the stadium are predominantly black.
The stadium additionally incorporates a large torch sculpture, which Manica says is the biggest 3D printed object on this planet.
It has a light-weight fixture on high so it may be “lighted up” earlier than video games to honor Raiders coach and proprietor Al Davis.
Following Las Vegas’ strict water administration necessities, a rainwater assortment system was built-in into the outside of the construction.
Captured water is reused to irrigate the landscaping, which is planted with native greenery.
Manica has labored on stadium design for the previous 30 years, first with HOK Sport (now Populous) after which beneath his eponymous studio.
He mentioned advances in expertise, supplies and development have allowed large-scale stadium initiatives “to take off in a manner that they only did not 30 years in the past.”
He additionally famous that it’s an thrilling time to work as an architect in Las Vegas, because of versatile approvals and different large-scale initiatives such because the Sphere, the world’s spherical construction with a facade of LED screens.
“There is a sizzle to what is going on on in Vegas and the structure is a giant a part of that,” he mentioned.
Tremendous Bowl 58 shall be performed on February 11, 2024 at Allegiant Stadium by the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers.
Final yr, architect Peter Eisenman instructed Dezeen that it was “vital to have an structure for an NFL aspect. We beforehand rounded up the primary Tremendous Bowl stadiums.
Picture by Jason O’Rear.