Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Livestock Center
An aerial dusk precedent for large-span agricultural or event facilities by Populous, showing how monumental hall geometries and integrated plaza lighting organize vast exhibition grounds.
- What we like about this project
- The slender, skeletal steel water tower acts as a vertical anchor against the massive horizontal expanse of the livestock hall.
Materials
- metal-panel
- steel
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- water-tower
- metal-clad-hall
- large-plaza
- dusk-lighting
- pitched-roof
Style tags
- industrial
- civic
- contemporary
- large-scale
Visual tags
- aerial-view
- civic
- agricultural
- public-realm
- large-span
- twilight
- Geometry
- Long, low-slung rectilinear hall with a pitched roof system, flanked by expansive paved plazas and an iconic skeletal water tower in the foreground.
- Facade system
- Metal panel wall cladding with punched structural openings and large glass entry storefronts.
- Structural guess
- Long-span steel trusses supporting a metal deck pitched roof on steel columns.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale civic/agricultural campus, featuring a multi-acre footprint and a towering water tower.
- Lighting
- Dusk ambient blue hour lighting balanced by warm pole-mounted and architectural floodlighting illuminating the plaza and facade.
- Atmosphere
- Expansive and calm under a twilight sky, activated by pools of warm artificial lighting.
- Environmental context
- Expansive industrial or fairground site at twilight with a distant urban skyline on the horizon.
- Spatial experience
- The aerial view captures the vast scale of the events campus, contrasting the warm ground lighting with the cool twilight sky and distant city skyline.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating structural bays and evenly spaced exterior lighting masts establish a steady horizontal rhythm along the hall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial-civic architecture
- Program
- Livestock exhibition and multi-purpose events center
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panel, steel, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- water-tower, metal-clad-hall, large-plaza, dusk-lighting, pitched-roof
- Style tags
- industrial, civic, contemporary, large-scale
- Visual tags
- aerial-view, civic, agricultural, public-realm, large-span, twilight
- Geometry
- Long, low-slung rectilinear hall with a pitched roof system, flanked by expansive paved plazas and an iconic skeletal water tower in the foreground.
- Facade system
- Metal panel wall cladding with punched structural openings and large glass entry storefronts.
- Structural guess
- Long-span steel trusses supporting a metal deck pitched roof on steel columns.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale civic/agricultural campus, featuring a multi-acre footprint and a towering water tower.
- Lighting
- Dusk ambient blue hour lighting balanced by warm pole-mounted and architectural floodlighting illuminating the plaza and facade.
- Atmosphere
- Expansive and calm under a twilight sky, activated by pools of warm artificial lighting.
- Environmental context
- Expansive industrial or fairground site at twilight with a distant urban skyline on the horizon.
- Spatial experience
- The aerial view captures the vast scale of the events campus, contrasting the warm ground lighting with the cool twilight sky and distant city skyline.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating structural bays and evenly spaced exterior lighting masts establish a steady horizontal rhythm along the hall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial-civic architecture
- Program
- Livestock exhibition and multi-purpose events center
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture