Montreal Olympic Stadium wants your ideas for the old roof

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With four $15,000 prizes for the winners and four more $5,000 prizes for the winning students, the competition includes 42,000 square meters of exterior and interior roof membrane, more than 12 kilometers of steel cables and 434 connectors that make up the roof and technical covering. a ring below it. Participants must register by May 31 and submit their proposals by June 11. Winners will be announced in the summer and fall.

“The competition is open to the international community to collect proposals that are the most favorable for the environment, economy and society,” the Olympic Park said in a statement.

Quebecers can vote for their favorite proposals among the eight finalists selected by experts.

The roof of the Olympic Stadium was originally designed to be a tensile Kevlar material. The first roof was installed ten years after the stadium was used for the Olympics and was replaced in 1998 with a non-removable version, which also malfunctioned. The stadium was closed during the winter due to the threat of snow, and remained closed this spring, forcing groups such as CF Montréal to abandon plans to use it.

The construction of the new roof will take four years.

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