When the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals face off this month for Super Bowl LVI, they will do it on the Rams’ own home turf: the new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The National Football League’s newest and largest venue, SoFi Stadium is designed by HKS Architects in collaboration with Studio-MLA, a Los Angeles–based landscape architecture firm led by Mia Lehrer.
Set under a distinctively swooping roof canopy, the 70,000-plus-seat stadium provides a larger-scale version—much larger scale—of what Southern Californian architecture does best: indoor-outdoor living. Supported by 37 colossal columns, the roof provides protection from the rain, but because it does not touch any of the stadium’s walls, it has the benefits of an open-air space. As Mia Lehrer remarks in a conversation with AD, “there are incredible breezes from the ocean that move through the stadium.”
SoFi Stadium was designed by HKS Architects in collaboration with Studio-MLA, a Los Angeles–based landscape architecture firm led by Mia Lehrer.
Photo: Courtesy of Studio-MLAFinding sites for new stadiums can be a complex proposition, particularly for dense urban environments like Los Angeles. With the closure of the Hollywood Park Racetrack, though, such a site availed itself to the team owner, Stan Kroenke. Though the parcel came with the surface area needed for a major stadium, there was a catch: its proximity to LAX. To get the volume needed for sufficient seating, the stadium would run afoul of height restrictions imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration. So HKS, Studio-MLA, and their team of engineers carried out an innovative compromise: embedding the stadium 80 feet into the ground.
To address this significant grade change, Lehrer created landscaped walkways that terrace down to the stadium entrances. Planted with vegetation from the Mediterranean biome, the landscape doubles as a kind of botanical garden. Her design also does some heavy lifting with environmental performance, with a 6-acre lake capturing storm water runoff that can be used to irrigate the development’s planted areas. Kush Parekh, an associate principal with Studio-MLA and the project team lead, estimates the strategy will reclaim 26 million gallons of water each year.
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