BMO Stadium

BMO Stadium

Located within historic Exposition Park, the new BMO Stadium, formerly named Banc of California Stadium, provides home to the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC), the City’s own Major League Soccer team. Studio-MLA led the design of the site by exploring the unique historic context of Exposition Park and the Memorial Coliseum. To accentuate the connection of this urban park into its surrounding neighborhood we created distinctive edges for promenades, flexible plazas, and gardens. The series of entry plazas curates the arrival experience and contribute to the visual identity of the Stadium. The Northwest Plaza, which is the most proximate to the Memorial Coliseum provides a large flexible space for a variety of programmable events. The Stadium also includes a team store and new food commissary called Fields LA providing a distinctly Los Angeles based offering of food and beverage amenities year round and features a roof deck garden for additional event space and enhance the game day experience.

CLIENT

LAFC

SIZE

16 acres

LOCATION

Los Angeles, California

COMPLETED

2018

Project team

  • Gensler Architect
  • KPFF Civil Engineer
  • ME Engineers, Inc. M/E/P Engineer
  • Thorton Tomassetti Structural Engineer
  • First Circle Lighting
  • iD!BRi Audio Visual
  • Millennium Field Consultant
  • Nous Engineers Roof Engineer

CERTIFICATION

  • United States Green Building Council LEED Gold Certification

AWARDS

  • 2019 Los Angeles Business Council, Grand Prize / Hospitality & Attractions
  • 2018 SoCal Development Forum, Development Team of the Year
  • 2018 American Concrete Institute, Decorative Use of Concrete in Construction

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