BC Place

Architect Studio Philips Barratt Date Opened June 1983 Our First Impression “It’s Canada’s first, North America’s largest, the world’s most beautiful air-supported dome.” A Sober Second Thought “I like to think of the stadium’s awkward roof as a bit of misplaced 19th-century industrial infrastructure: views to its steel roof pylons (looking east down Georgia Street, for example) providing a large-scale antidote to the relentless living-unit-sized module of the surrounding condo towers.” —Matt McLeod, McLeod Bovell Modern Houses