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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1837384, member: 27"] [IMG]http://static.theglobeandmail.ca/095/sports/football/article31216429.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/fb-vikings31sp4.JPG[/IMG] It will be a soccer game. If rumors and reports are correct, some of the elements of this stadium will be used in the renovated Carrier Dome. Interesting that the Vikings wanted to cut $800K from the cost for the stadium by dropping part of the ETFE wall. The construction company told them 'no', and won that battle. [B][URL="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/minnesota-vikings-new-stadium-built-for-generations-to-come/article31216430/?cmpid=rss1&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter"]Minnesota Vikings’ new stadium built for ‘generations to come’[/URL] (globeandmail.com; Krawczynski)[/B] [I]At the top of the Vikings’ shiny, new $1.1-billion (U.S.) football palace, there is a ring of glass separating the seating bowl from the roof that the team and the stadium designers call the “clear story.” At night, when U.S. Bank Stadium is lit up, the clear story gives the visual impression that the roof is floating. And on sunny mornings, the large windows allow sunlight to flow in from the east, bathing the seats on the other side of the stadium in a yellow glow. The clear story is one of the many calling cards for architects of the stadium – and one that almost didn’t make the cut: With the cost of the project rising, Mortenson Construction told the Vikings that eliminating that particular feature would save the team $800,000. “At the time we were over a perceived budget. They said, ‘Well, we’d like to accept that,’” said John Hutchings, sports principal-in-charge at HKS Sports and Entertainment. “We said, ‘Over our dead body’ … It was a decision that we fought hard to keep. We didn’t win all of them, but that was one that was pretty important for the overall look of the stadium.” [/I] [/QUOTE]

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