Carter-Finley Still a Modernist Marvel

Carter-Finley Stadium Moments to Remember

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.

五十年前，当北卡罗来纳州沃尔夫帕克（Wolfpack）足球队在奉献日接待南卡罗来纳州时，闪闪发光的41,000个座位的卡特体育场（Carter Stadium）开业。

“好上帝，已经很久了吗？”体育场的主要设计师之一，前设计学院教授和两次北卡罗来纳州州立大学研究生查尔斯·H·卡恩（Charles H. Kahn）说。

90岁的卡恩（Kahn）上周在三十年来首次参观了他最大的项目之一，在其50周年纪念日开球之前就占据了一个空旷的体育场的广泛范围。沃尔夫帕克（Wolfpack）在下午7:30对威廉＆玛丽（William＆Mary）对阵威廉和玛丽（William＆Mary）的2016赛季开幕。

“新闻框怎么了？”他大声想。

Much indeed has changed since his last visit to Carter-Finley—almost $200 million in facility improvements and stadium expansion, with a permanent seat capacity of 57,600. Luxurious seven-story Vaughn Towers replaced the demolished original press box in 2005, offering 51 suites, a chancellor’s suite, boxes for home and visiting coaches and enhanced press facilities. Both end zones have been enclosed, taking the place of the original A.E. Finley Fieldhouse and the grassy bank where many general admission spectators enjoyed a festival atmosphere. There are three practice fields, an indoor practice facility and a plaza that connects the stadium to PNC Arena, a next-door-neighbor that didn’t exist when the Wolfpack played its first game at its new home on Oct. 8, 1966.

卡恩,他退休院长弧hitecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas in 1991 after developing Parkinson’s disease, is one of three design engineers and architects credited with the modernist stadium’s unique pre-stressed concrete design. Kahn, who also designed the East Carolina basketball arena Minges Coliseum and the Poliedro de Caracas in Venezuela, has lived in Chapel Hill since his retirement.

L.E. Wooten, a 1917 graduate and a former civil engineering professor who opened Raleigh’s biggest engineering firm in 1936, was一般负责设计, 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，北卡罗来纳州设计院长的前学生亨利·坎普纳（Henry Kamphoefner），是主要建筑师。Small还建造了NC州的核反应堆，原始的Talley学生中心和现已拆除的NC州立学生书店。

卡特体育场（Carter Stadium）在不到22个月的时间内建造了闪电战，这为其预制结构创造了必要性。

卡恩说：“在那个时间范围内，我们可以完成它的唯一方法是通过创意设计。”“没有足够的时间来制作现场混凝土系统，并在1966赛季进行了制作。

“The concept I had was that the stadium would be built in three pieces of pre-cast concrete that could be made and erected [like] a Tinker Toy set.”

Some 2,500 seat platforms were manufactured in Durham and trucked to the site of an old research pond adjacent to the North Carolina Fairgrounds, a university-owned tract that offered ample parking and room for expansion. The 16 pre-stressed support bents were poured into molds on the ground, then lifted into place by cranes. The girders that supported the two upper decks were also poured on site and lifted into place.

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.

Upon returning from Rome, he was appointed associate professor of design in 1959, joining Kamphoefner’s all-star cast of modern structuralist faculty that included马修·诺维奇（Matthew Nowicki）, Horacio Caminos and George Matsumoto. Kahn stayed until 1968, when he left for Kansas. He returned to Raleigh frequently, though, and often saw games at Carter Stadium through the 1970s.

他批准了过去15年中所做的变化，尽管封闭的区域隐藏了体育场的一些独特的架设固定品质。

“Future expansion, of course, was limited by the site itself,” Kahn said. “The obvious way to do it was filling in the end zones. Seeing it for the first time in 30 years catches me a little unawares, but it seems to have preserved the original concept of what the stadium was supposed to be.

“It’s impressive.”

这些年来。