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Coca-Cola Amphitheater
Birmingham, Ala.
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Sent by: Goodwyn Mills Cawood
Owner: Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex
Lead Design Firm: Generator Studios
General Contractor: Stone Building Co.
Designer: Studio H2; Goodwyn Mills Cawood
The Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex’s very first al fresco music location needed to be finished by an unmovable due date to accommodate performances Live Nation had actually set up well ahead of task conclusion. The $46-million Coca-Cola Amphitheater rests on a formerly underutilized website as a foundation for redevelopment of the surrounding community.
Rather of working versus the website’s sloping hill, the job group selected to welcome the natural landscape. The slope’s orientation resulted in putting the seats on the hillside, offering the amphitheater a natural increase, a raised view without much lift and a bowl angled to take in the Birmingham horizon and airport. Clients approaching southern see it as a huge increasing structure.
Surrounding the 9,300-seat bowl is a network of smaller sized structures for client features, service points and workplaces. There are likewise 8 personal spaces for entertainers. The location’s outside is outfitted in copper-toned metal panels that reference the area’s red clay soils.
The task group likewise needed to fulfill Live Nation’s location requirements, guaranteeing artists’ personal privacy. Those locations are positioned out of sight from all entryways to make sure safe, personal suites, and the artist location includes 8 specific spaces for opening acts, headliners and bands.
Building was completed at budget plan and ahead of schedule in June 2025.
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