Steve Freihon/Related-Oxford
New York, New York
Highlights
- The arena’s structural system consists of belled caissons, cast-in-place concrete at the event and below-grade parking levels and a steel-framed superstructure above.
- A 1,800-meter winter garden bridge - featuring tall glass walls and ceilings that rise up to 25 meters – is integrated with the arena, with slide bearings and hidden expansion joints located below the bridge at the far side of the roadway.
- Some challenging structural design features include the use of large unbraced column lengths, transfers of major column lines, large irregularly shaped slab openings and occupied floors hung from the long-span roof.
- Our CORE studio team performed computational modeling and surface rationalization so the curvilinear glass façade could be built using cold-bent, quadrangular, insulated glass. We also developed a custom tool that used Kangaroo – a Grasshopper plug-in for form-finding – to speed warpage analysis.
