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NewsNews • 4 Jun 2024

Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition Amphitheatre to feature a precedent-setting mass timber roof

Situated in Hastings Park, Vancouver, the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) Amphitheatre by Revery Architecture  and engineers Fast + Epp envisions a covered, open-air theatre venue with a capacity of approximately 10,0000 beneath a precedent-setting starburst mass timber roof. Designed to span more than 340 feet (104 m), the roof will be one of the world's largest free-span timber roof structures upon completion. Courtesy Pacific National Exhibition The structure includes 60 arches arranged in 6-barrel vaulted segments intersecting at diagonal planes, forming 80-foot-high (24-meter-high) arcs that frame views toward Vancouver's North Shore Mountains. At the same time, the footings touch down into the landscape at three point... More