卡特 - 菲利仍然是现代主义的奇迹

卡特 - 芬利体育场时刻要记住

When the inevitable replacement for NC State’s tiny on-campus football stadium finally was set to become a reality, the school turned to its own experts — alumni, professors and frequent contributors to campus architecture — to create a unique off-campus entertainment complex for the Raleigh community.

Fifty years ago, gleaming 41,000-seat Carter Stadium opened when NC State’s Wolfpack football team hosted South Carolina on Dedication Day.

“Good God, has it been that long?” says former College of Design professor and two-time NC State graduate Charles H. Kahn, one of the stadium’s principal designers.

Kahn, 90, visited the site of one of his biggest projects for the first time in more than three decades last week, taking in the broad scope of an empty stadium just before the kickoff of its 50th anniversary. The Wolfpack opens the 2016 season Thursday night against William & Mary at 7:30 p.m.

“What happened to the press box?” he wondered aloud.

自从他上次访问卡特·芬利（Carter-Finley）以来，确实发生了很多变化，几乎是2亿美元的设施改进和体育场扩张，永久性座位容量为57,600。豪华的七层楼沃恩塔（Vaughn Towers）取代了2005年被拆除的原始新闻盒，提供了51套套房，一个校长的套房，供家庭盒子和来访的教练和增强的新闻机构。这两个末端区域都被封闭，取代了原始的A.E. Finley Fieldhouse和Grassy Bank，许多一般招生的观众都享受了节日的气氛。有三个练习场，一个室内练习设施和一个将体育场与PNC Arena连接起来的广场，PNC Arena是一个隔壁的邻居，当Wolfpack于1966年10月8日在新家中玩了第一场比赛时，它不存在。

卡恩（Kahn）于1991年在堪萨斯大学（University of Kansas）的建筑与城市设计学院退休后于开发帕金森氏病后，他是现代体育场独特的预压缩混凝土设计的三位设计工程师和建筑师之一。卡恩（Kahn）还设计了东卡罗莱纳州篮球竞技场（East Carolina Basketball Arena）的体育馆和委内瑞拉的Poliedro de Caracas，自退休以来就一直住在教堂山（Chapel Hill）。

L.E.Wooten是1917年的毕业生，也是一名前土木工程教授，他于1936年开设了罗利最大的工程公司，他是in general charge of design, personally invited to oversee the project by then-State College Chancellor John Caldwell in 1962. Wooten, a member of NC State’s baseball team as a student and a leader to get grandstands built at Riddick Field beginning in 1917, was an ardent supporter of Wolfpack football until he died at the age of 99.

G. Milton Small, a former student of NC State School of Design DeanHenry Kamphoefner, was the primary architect. Small also built NC State’s nuclear reactor, the original Talley Student Center and the now-demolished NC State student bookstore.

Carter Stadium was built lightning-quick, in just under 22 months, which created the necessity for its pre-fabricated construction.

“唯一的方法我们可以完成frame was through a creative design,” Kahn said. “There wasn’t enough time to do a cast-in-place concrete system and have it done for the 1966 season.

“我的概念是，体育场将建造成三个可以制造和架设的预铸造混凝土，这些混凝土可以制造和竖起。”

在达勒姆（Durham）制造了约2500个座位平台，并将其卡车运到北卡罗来纳州集市（North Carolina Fairgrounds）附近的一个古老的研究池的现场，这是一个大学拥有的土地，提供了充足的停车位和扩建空间。将16个预压力的支撑物倒入地面上的模具中，然后被起重机抬起。支撑两个上层甲板的梁也被倒在现场并抬起。

A native of Alabama who grew up in the Piedmont town of Salisbury, Kahn had earned degrees in math and physics from UNC (1946) and in civil engineering from NC State (1948), plus a master’s degree from MIT (1949) and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from NC State (1956). He spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Rome, where he not only studied the Colosseum, but also the city’s two biggest facilities for the 1960 Olympic Games, the Stadio Olimpico and the Palazzo Dello Sport, both of which heavily influenced his design of Carter Stadium.

从罗马返回后，他于1959年被任命为设计副教授，加入了坎普纳（Kamphoefner）的全明星阵容，包括现代结构主义教师Matthew Nowicki，Horacio Caminos和George Matsumoto。卡恩（Kahn）一直呆到1968年，当时他去了堪萨斯州。不过，他经常回到罗利，并且经常在1970年代在卡特体育场看到比赛。

He approves of the changes made over the last 15 years, even though the closed end zones hide some of the stadium’s unique erector set qualities.

卡恩说：“当然，未来的扩展受到该网站本身的限制。”“这样做的明显方法是填补了末端区域。30年来第一次看到它让我有些不知情，但是它似乎保留了体育场本应是什么的原始概念。

“这令人印象深刻。”

Even after all these years.