Ottawa city council decided not to pay for a plant-covered roof on a future arena at Lansdowne because it would cost too much. Instead, the arena's roof will be a PVC membrane in a patina-green colour the project lead says could mimic the colour of the roofs at Parliament Hill.
The City of Ottawa is finessing detailed designs for a new events centre and north side stands in the $419-million Lansdowne 2.0, but some issues repeatedly flagged likely won't change in the final rundown.Ottawa city council decided not to pay for a plant-covered roof on a future arena at Lansdowne because it would cost too much. Instead, the arena's roof will be a PVC membrane in a green patina colour the project lead says could mimic the colour of the roofs at Parliament Hill.
To get to the front doors, however, most people will pass between a future tower and the Aberdeen Pavilion. And it's not just people: Lansdowne 2.0'sVarious city staff and the advisory panel of architects have suggested the Lansdowne project be reviewed for how people and vehicles will move around.
The Lansdowne team planned that whole area with pedestrians and accessibility in mind, he says. People already flood out of the stadium's Gate 4 from a Redblacks without a problem, Moore says.The urban design review panel and city staff have also had lots of questions about the materials being used. Moore says the aluminum wood look for the arena was chosen because of what happened to the wood "veil" on the south-side stands built over a decade ago.
Moore says the team plans to hold up wall samples at Lansdowne and choose the right appearance of wood grain that can relate well to the Aberdeen Pavilion.There will be a whole lot of that aluminum panelling on the side of the events centre that looks directly out on the Aberdeen Pavilion and the park.
Still, the design panel has repeatedly reminded the team that Lansdowne 1.0 won an international award for its landscape design, and the great lawn should remain as large as possible. The urban design review panel did weigh in on the stands in early December, and several comments suggest it thinks more work is needed on that design, too.
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