The Challenge Fabric Architecture took centre stage in the £34M Aintree Racecourse Grandstand redevelopment by designing, engineering and installing 3 unique tensile fabric roof. The main canopy over the Saddle Bar has pushed fabric as a building medium to new frontiers. The fabric roof ‘theme’ makes this venue a hit for races and other year round events. Designed with BDP over a two year period, the Saddle Bar is a building that links two other buildings and stands overlooking the racecourse. Originally specified as a metal roof, the tensile fabric membrane roof oversails the six storey building and was engineered with steel masts running down the front of the building. Patterning, engineering and installing a structure of this size atop a building was a challenge. The Solution The bespok

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