Project Team: Gensler Architects, PCL Construction, Structurflex

Owner: 555triplefive

Services: Concept Design, Optimization Analysis, ETFE - Detailed Design & Fabrication Planning

Materials + Systems: Steel structure, fritted ETFE cushions

American Dream Meadowlands is a massive expansion of an existing shopping center into a gigantic shopping and entertainment complex. Among its features, it will have a water park, an indoor ski slope, an ice skating rink, a roller coaster, a Legoland and a shark aquarium. It will have a total of 4.8 million square feet of retail space with over 500 stores. It will have a total of four roofs of ETFE cushions and the façade of the new building extension. 

Indoor ice rink (NHL-sized)

Nickelodeon Universe indoor theme park

DreamWorks-themed Water Park – A year-round indoor water park

Concert hall – 2,400–3,000 seat performing arts and concert venue

Indoor ski slope

Miniature 18-hole golf course

Cinemex dine-in 4D movie theater

KidZania

Lucky Strike bowling alley

Legoland Discovery Center

Sea Life Aquarium

6 "anchor" retail tenants with 50,000+ square feet each

12 "major" retailers (20,000 to 50,000 square feet each)

339 small shops (up to 20,000 square feet)

21 restaurants

45 specialty food retailers

20 food court, including a kosher food court