The Super Bowl offers several ways to have fun. There are the ads, the parties, the half-time show ... even the football. But the most underrated aspect of Super Bowl Sunday? The food. Perhaps more than any other American holiday, the Super Bowl encourages amateur chefs to get wild with snacks and go ham with some appetizers. One place where architecture collapses with this combo of sports and sustenance is in the Snack Stadium, a fantastic fan fiction of food, football, form, function, and fat. While these culinary structures vary in their materials and aesthetic, there are some common tropes, such as beefstick goal posts, guacamole fields, Rice Krispies arches, and candy cars in parking lots. Below, we've gathered some of our favorite examples to inspire you to come up with your own Snack Stadium creations . After all, perhaps this is an under-explored architectural typology. What kind of innovations could we make, either with materials or building construction? Could we recreate great sporting complexes such as Brooklyn's Barclays Center, Beijing's Bird's Nest, or the University of Phoenix Stadium? Corn Dog spires. A green facade. Swiss Roll and ...
The Super Bowl offers several ways to have fun. There are the ads, the parties, the half-time show ... even the football. But the most underrated aspect of Super Bowl Sunday? The food. Perhaps more than any other American holiday, the Super Bowl encourages amateur chefs to get wild with snacks and go ham with some appetizers. One place where architecture collapses with this combo of sports and sustenance is in the Snack Stadium, a fantastic fan fiction of food, football, form, function, and fat. While these culinary structures vary in their materials and aesthetic, there are some common tropes, such as beefstick goal posts, guacamole fields, Rice Krispies arches, and candy cars in parking lots. Below, we've gathered some of our favorite examples to inspire you to come up with your own Snack Stadium creations . After all, perhaps this is an under-explored architectural typology. What kind of innovations could we make, either with materials or building construction? Could we recreate great sporting complexes such as Brooklyn's Barclays Center, Beijing's Bird's Nest, or the University of Phoenix Stadium? Corn Dog spires. A green facade. Swiss Roll and ...