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The contest, with four $15,000 prizes for the winners, and another four $5,000 for winning student submissions, covers 42,000 square metres of the outer and inner roof membrane, more than 12 kilometres of steel cables, and 434 connectors that form the roof and the technical ring below it. Participants have until May 31 to register and June 11 to submit their proposals. Winners will be announced in the summer and fall.
“The competition is open to the international community in order to collect as many optimal suggestions as possible for the environment, the economy and society,” the Olympic Park said in a statement.
Quebecers will be able to vote on their favourite proposal, among eight finalists chosen by experts.
The roof of the Olympic Stadium was originally designed to be a retractable Kevlar material. The first roof was installed a decade after the stadium was used for the Olympics, and replaced with a non-retractable version in 1998, which also failed to function properly. The stadium was closed during the winter because of the risks from snow, and this year has remained closed during the spring, forcing groups like CF Montréal to cancel plans to use it.
Construction of the new roof will take four years.
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