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 Author: Stefan Schumacher
Date: 4/1/2010
Most people who are baseball fans either love or hate the New York Yankees. As one of the most marquee franchises in all of professional sports, everything the Yankees do is high profile and that brings equal parts adoration and ire. You do not, however, have to like the team, or even baseball, to appreciate the new Yankee Stadium in Bronx, N.Y., designedby Kansas City, Mo.-based Populous.
The second most expensive stadium in the world cost $1.5 billion to construct. It opened in April 2009 and has already hosted a World Series. As baseball begins again, it seems an ideal time to look at the variety of roles metal played in the construction of the iconic building,which combines the tradition of the old Yankee Stadium with 21st century design.
If you are on your way to or from the game (the parking garage and metro stop feature metal) or almost anywhere in or around the stadium, you will notice metal’s contribution to the experience.
 Getting to the Game
Metal continues to be part of the new Yankee Stadium experience—even outside the stadium itself—depending on how you travel to the game.
Construction and operation of the 164th Street Garage, which has 190 spaces and sits adjacent to the stadium, needed to be cost effective and efficient. A Cambridge Parkade architectural mesh system from Cambridge Architectural, Cambridge, Md., clad the building’s façade, and the chosen pattern managed to adequately cover the structure’s exterior while at the same time allowing enough airflow to negate the need for additional building systems— ultimately saving the project team money.
“Cambridge's architectural mesh pattern allows enough passage of air to make a sprinkler system unnecessary, all while acting as an effective façade for the garage,” said Michael Hanrahan, senior associate of Trenton, N.J.-based Clarke Caton Hintz, the architect of the parking garage. “The finished product is a sleek, beautiful, modern mesh that catches the sun during the day and reflects colored light at night.”
The Parkade system was fabricated with mesh in Cambridge’s Braid pattern, which features large-scaled, flexible open weaves that shade and screen structures including facades, parking garages and pavilions.
For fans arriving via the MTA Metro-North Train Station at 153th Street, they will be protected under standing-seam canopies and roofs made from Englert Series 1300 profile from Englert Inc., Perth Amboy, N.J. Englert’s T-panel with batten caps shades a double-S curve to the roof over the east stairway of the complex. The T-panels allow seam sections to snap on rather than the panels being machine locked together.
The new station included new platforms, a pedestrian bridge, stairs and mezzanines on either side of the bridge, and elevators capped by Englert Series 1300 material. A Forest Green color was chosen to match other station roofs along the Hudson Line of the railroad. Many stations along the Hudson Line have Englert standing-seam metal roofs.For more on the complex construction of the new Yankee Stadium, visit www.metalconstructionnews.com.
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