World Stadiums

[Gassin's finest]

Think the neighbours might object to those floodlights.

It's being built right out on the edge of the town, near the existing Glanford Park. It's nowt but retail parks around there.

 

[pffft]

This is one of my favourite stadiums, Bursaspor's Timsah arena:

 

[LSUY]

Scunny's new ground:

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Remove the crappy arch and that would be a nice stadium.

 

['O Zio]

This is one of my favourite stadiums, Bursaspor's Timsah arena:

Looks like a fucking caterpillar

 

[Lilbaz]

This is one of my favourite stadiums, Bursaspor's Timsah arena:

Personally think it looks cheap and gimmicky.

 

['O Zio]

Personally think it looks cheap and gimmicky.

Agree it's like if a 5 year old child designed a stadium. They should put the time/money into making it good on the inside, not some gimmicky caterpillar shite on the outside.

 

[Lilbaz]

Agree it's like if a 5 year old child designed a stadium. They should put the time/money into making it good on the inside, not some gimmicky caterpillar shite on the outside.

Some people like it which is fine. Just not for me.

 

[stov]

You've not been to Crawley then...

They have a nice 3g pitch. I used to play on when I worked in the area. The stadium is a dump though

 

[pffft]

Agree it's like if a 5 year old child designed a stadium. They should put the time/money into making it good on the inside, not some gimmicky caterpillar shite on the outside.

That's because it actually was designed by a young child, I think she was 6...the chairman's daughter or something like that. Obviously the serious internal stuff was designed by architects, but the crocodile effect (Bursaspor's nickname is The Green Crocodiles) was all down to a kiddie. And that's why I like it so much, because I can't imagine any other team on the planet doing that.

 

[Gassin's finest]

That's because it actually was designed by a young child, I think she was 6...the chairman's daughter or something like that. Obviously the serious internal stuff was designed by architects, but the crocodile effect (Bursaspor's nickname is The Green Crocodiles) was all down to a kiddie. And that's why I like it so much, because I can't imagine any other team on the planet doing that.

I dunno, that nutso Chelsea volcano design seemed like it might've been...

 

[nailsy]

It's being built right out on the edge of the town, near the existing Glanford Park. It's nowt but retail parks around there.

Are they just office buildings next to it then?

Personally think it looks cheap and gimmicky.

Me too. But I kind of like it

 

[Gassin's finest]

Are they just office buildings next to it then?



Me too. But I kind of like it

Possibly, or retail units? But the way that scunnys season is going, I doubt it's going to get built anytime soon.

 

[nailsy]

Possibly, or retail units? But the way that scunnys season is going, I doubt it's going to get built anytime soon.

Looks like we're talking at crossed purposes. Baz and I were talking about the Plough Lane picture.

 

[SpunkyBackpack]

I don't understand this obsession with having some sort of weird architectural feature like that. Bit like that arch thing at Wembley, it serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever but presumably costs loads extra to build vs. just making the roof the same all the way round.

Isnt that and the Wembley arch literally holding the roof up? Which is quite an important purpose in my opinion.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Looks like we're talking at crossed purposes. Baz and I were talking about the Plough Lane picture.

Lol, sorry mate!

Yeah, Plough Lane is a bit like a mini Northumberland Project, flats and the like around it to placate Merton Council.

It's unsurprisingly met a lot of resistance, because Plough Lane itself is retail parks and supermarkets. So couple Saturday shoppers with circa. 5k footy fans clogging it up then you could have a bit of a nightmare on.

 

['O Zio]

Isnt that and the Wembley arch literally holding the roof up? Which is quite an important purpose in my opinion.

What on earth are you talking about? Have you never seen any stadiums except for Wembley? Out of all the stadiums in the world I'd say fewer than 1% of them have some sort of stupid arch, in fact it's probably fewer than 1% of the 1%. so how can you possibly come to the conclusion that that's some kind of fundamental structural feature of a stadium roof? If you mean that if I was to now go and remove the Wembley arch the roof would fall down, then you may well be right, but that's obviously only because they've built the stadium based on the idea of having the arch in the first place. Quite clearly the arch in both cases was originally meant to be a design feature as opposed to being a fundamental part of the structural design, otherwise all stadium roofs would have to have an arch wouldn't they.

If you're going to respond to a post by making some snooty snide comment and talk to me like I'm a moron, at least make sure you're not talking absolute bollocks yourself first ffs

 

[SpunkyBackpack]

What on earth are you talking about? Have you never seen any stadiums except for Wembley? Out of all the stadiums in the world I'd say fewer than 1% of them have some sort of stupid arch, in fact it's probably fewer than 1% of the 1%. so how can you possibly come to the conclusion that that's some kind of fundamental structural feature of a stadium roof? If you mean that if I was to now go and remove the Wembley arch the roof would fall down, then you may well be right, but that's obviously only because they've built the stadium based on the idea of having the arch in the first place. Quite clearly the arch in both cases was originally meant to be a design feature as opposed to being a fundamental part of the structural design, otherwise all stadium roofs would have to have an arch wouldn't they.

If you're going to respond to a post by making some snooty snide comment and talk to me like I'm a moron, at least make sure you're not talking absolute bollocks yourself first ffs

Have you read something into my post that i have missed? Because thats a heck of a reaction to a one sentence question about things that hold stadium roofs up.

 

['O Zio]

Have you read something into my post that i have missed? Because thats a heck of a reaction to a one sentence question about things that hold stadium roofs up.

I said I don't like artistic design features of stadiums, like the Wembley arch, because I think it's pointless and invariably just costs more than building a normal roof. You've then responded to me by saying the arch is only there to hold the roof on and making out like I'm some kind of idiot, patronisingly telling me that holding the roof up might just be a little bit important, as if I've just asked them to float the roof on thin air or something. It was just completely unnecessary to respond in such a patronising way when the point I made was pretty clear cut, especially when your response makes no sense.

 

[nailsy]

I said I don't like artistic design features of stadiums, like the Wembley arch, because I think it's pointless and invariably just costs more than building a normal roof. You've then responded to me by saying the arch is only there to hold the roof on and making out like I'm some kind of idiot, patronisingly telling me that holding the roof up might just be a little bit important, as if I've just asked them to float the roof on thin air or something. It was just completely unnecessary to respond in such a patronising way when the point I made was pretty clear cut, especially when your response makes no sense.

I don't think he meant it like that at all.

 

['O Zio]

I don't think he meant it like that at all.

Why say it in such a patronising way then? I'm aware that holding a roof up is fairly important, I don't need that pointing out to me, but obviously that's not the main reason the arch is there so my point still stands.

Anyway, I don't want to derail the whole thread with some petty squabble. It is what it is.