A Vancouver icon – Richmond Olympic Oval, 2008. Designed by Cannon Design the long-span timber roof was an ambitious experiment at the time. Built for the 2010 Winter Olympics, it helped demonstrate what engineered wood could do at a civic scale and played a key role in accelerating the mass timber movement that followed.
Engineering by Fast & Epp
Architecture by Cannon Design
Construction by Dominion Fairmile Construction Ltd.
Owner: City of Richmond
Design-Build by Structurecraft
This is part of our series on mass timber in British Columbia, in collaboration with Naturally Wood. Find more about this project at www.naturallywood.com
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