Lucas Oil Stadium facade
— brick the colour of an old ballpark, scaled to a stadium.
Not only on a wall.
Lucas Oil Stadium facade, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Indiana limestone and red brick, raised in 2008 on the south edge of downtown Indianapolis. The architects wanted a stadium that looked like it had been there longer than it has, with arched windows, a clock tower over the north end, and a retractable roof that pulls back over 63,000 seats on game day. From Capitol Avenue the facade reads more like a 1920s armory than an NFL house.
The place, in three passes.
Lucas Oil Stadium opened in August 2008 as the home of the Indianapolis Colts, replacing the RCA Dome a block to the north. The building covers about 1.8 million square feet on the south edge of downtown Indianapolis and seats roughly 63,000 for football, expandable to 70,000 for events. HKS Sport & Entertainment designed it with a retractable roof and a north window wall that opens toward the city skyline. Super Bowl XLVI was played here in February 2012, won by the New York Giants over the New England Patriots.
The facade is the building's argument. Two hundred thousand bricks of varying red-brown tones sit against trim courses of Indiana limestone quarried near Bedford, about seventy miles south. HKS pulled the visual language from the brick-and-stone armories and railway sheds of the early twentieth century, then scaled it up to NFL dimensions. The clock tower above the northwest gate marks the main entrance. At dusk the brick warms toward orange and the limestone holds a paler grey, which is the colour the artwork keeps.
The stadium sits at 500 South Capitol Avenue, two blocks south of the Indiana Convention Center, with which it shares a connected concourse. Public tours run most weekdays when the building is not in event mode and cover the field, a locker room, and a suite level over about an hour. Tickets are sold through the Colts organisation. On game days the gates open ninety minutes before kickoff. Parking lots ring the south and west sides; the Red Line bus stops two blocks away.
