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New Minnesota Vikings Stadium

May 15, 2013 by · Comments Off on New Minnesota Vikings Stadium 

New Minnesota Vikings Stadium, The Minnesota Vikings have unveiled prospective images of their new stadium, and, in the spirit of similarly asymmetrical and eye-snagging designs like the new Atlanta Falcons design, it’s pretty darn striking.

Designed by HKS Sports and Entertainment, the stadium will seat 65,000, and can seat as much as 73,000 for a Super Bowl (which, of course, is always the goal). Since a retractable roof was too expensive, the stadium will have a clear roof to let in some of that sweet, sweet natural sunlight.

The venue will be configurable for all sorts of events, including concerts, baseball and NCAA basketball, just in case. And there promises to be a manicured plaza that will give Vikings fans something pretty to stare at if Christian Ponder throws the team out of the postseason.

The stadium’s shape made us feel something … something we hadn’t felt in a long, long time. But it took the fine folks at Kissing Suzy Kolber to nail it:

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