For two consecutive years, beginning in 2011, the Super Bowl will be played in stadiums designed by Texas A&M University College of Architecture alumnus Bryan Trubey ‘83 of the HKS Sports and Entertainment Group.
Cowboys Stadium, the home stadium of the Dallas Cowboys beginning in the 2009 season, will host Super Bowl XLV Feb. 6, 2011.
On May 24, 2008, the National Football League awarded Super Bowl XLVI to Indianapolis. The game will be played Feb 5, 2012 in Lucas Oil Stadium, which opens this fall as the home stadium of the league’s Indianapolis Colts.
Cowboys Stadium is a 2.3 million square-foot behemoth that will be the world’s largest domed structure. Among the building’s other distinctions will be the world’s largest column-free room, largest retractable roof, largest clear-span structure and the largest retractable end zone doors.
The Dallas Morning News has reported that Cowboys Stadium will cost 1.1 billion to build.
Lucas Oil Stadium will also feature a retractable roof and has lots of glass on its exterior to brighten the concourse areas.
Trubey told Indianapolis television station WTHR he designed the stadium as a civic space and not just a football stadium, since the building will also host basketball tournaments and conventions.
“All four sides are open and you enter from all four sides,” he said. “So you enter a space shaped intentionally as a major public space rather than a linear concourse.”
Dallas-based HKS, founded in 1939, is one of the top 10 architectural/engineering firms in the United States. Its architects are regular participants in studios at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture.
