Overview

Three Signature Structures have appeared on the Colorado horizon, at the top the highest city in the United States. Creating a performance area for Winter Park's Summer season of events, the permanent Double Conic tensile structures are designed to withstand the heavy snowfalls and summer storms.

Hideaway Park, situated in Winter Park, CO, is a well-loved holiday destination located in the highest town in the United States. Although predominatly a skiing destination, the resort is equally busy in the short summer season as a key venue for concerts and music festivals. Large crowds gather in a specially landscaped amphitheatre and it is here that several canopies were required to provide year-round shelter from rain, wind, snow and sun.

Design solution
Looking for striking features which held their own against the backdrop of the Continential Divide, the City of Winter Park chose three Double Conic designs from Fabric Architecture's range of Signature Structures.

Both steelwork and fabric were strengthened, enabling them to cope with some of the most severe weather conditions found in the USA.