May 01, 2004 - Soldier Field Awards
Soldier Field has won the following awards.
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Joseph Burns, managing principal of Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, will be on a panel discussion at the Columbia Building Intelligence Project in London, organized by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
The award-winning adaptive reuse of Chicago’s historic Soldier Field tackled complex geometry and steel construction innovations within a 20-month construction schedule, making it one of the NFL’s fastest built stadiums.
Bringing Chicago’s historic Soldier Field into the 21st century meant fitting a full-size, modern stadium into a 600’-wide space on a 20-month schedule.
The new football stadium at Soldier Field in Chicago is an uncannily accurate portrait of a great American city in changing times.
Shoehorning a football field and seating bowl, complete with suites, into the horseshoe-shaped perimeter bay of a narrow venue built 80 years ago for track and field was enough to drive many toward distraction.