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New Everton Stadium


'When I win the lottery' fantasy No 458. :cheers:

3 bedroomed luxury drum in the Tobacco Warehouse, a short walk to BMD.


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See Meis has opened up a little further on this although there is nothing we didn't already know in this - he's just clearly not happy...


Architect Dan Meis has admitted he is "extremely disappointed" at being dropped from the delivery of Everton Football Club’s new stadium.

The founder of Meis architects said the New York practice had worked hard to get “under the skin” of the Merseyside club and the city of Liverpool while designing the 52,000-seater stadium.

Everton’s contractor, Laing O’Rourke, has appointed London practice Pattern Design as technical architect for the arena planned for Bramley-Moore Dock.

It is understood that Meis learned last month that his firm – which drew up the original designs and had been involved in the job since 2016 – would not be appointed for any role on the delivery of the project.

“I was extremely disappointed to learn that we wouldn’t be involved in the ongoing work on the stadium,” he told Architects’ Journal, NCE’s sister publication.

“It is my belief that it is critical to have the design architect in a guardian role in order to protect the design that was submitted to planning.

“We spent more than four years embedding ourselves in the culture of the city and the club during the design process. I believe that level of commitment contributed to the overwhelmingly supportive response to the design.”

Meis architects was appointed to the Everton stadium project in 2016. Sheppard Robson was brought on board a year later before effectively being replaced by Pattern at the end of 2018.

It is understood that the New York firm had also teamed up with Manchester-based stadium specialists AFL Architects to bolster its specialist and local knowledge.

Last summer, Meis architects revealed images of its designs for Everton.

The practice said the brick base of the proposed stadium paid homage to Scottish architect Archibald Leitch’s latticework at the club’s current Goodison Park home, adding that the futuristic steel-and-glass upper level provided a modern flourish.

The scheme will provide a large, steep south stand to house 13,000 home fans on match days, with supporters as close to the action as regulations allow. Both the north and south stands could be converted into safe standing if regulations change.

Everton revealed at the start of 2018 that the cost of the stadium had “escalated significantly”.
 
Modern07 said:
See Meis has opened up a little further on this although there is nothing we didn't already know in this - he's just clearly not happy...


Architect Dan Meis has admitted he is "extremely disappointed" at being dropped from the delivery of Everton Football Club’s new stadium.

The founder of Meis architects said the New York practice had worked hard to get “under the skin” of the Merseyside club and the city of Liverpool while designing the 52,000-seater stadium.

Everton’s contractor, Laing O’Rourke, has appointed London practice Pattern Design as technical architect for the arena planned for Bramley-Moore Dock.

It is understood that Meis learned last month that his firm – which drew up the original designs and had been involved in the job since 2016 – would not be appointed for any role on the delivery of the project.

“I was extremely disappointed to learn that we wouldn’t be involved in the ongoing work on the stadium,” he told Architects’ Journal, NCE’s sister publication.

“It is my belief that it is critical to have the design architect in a guardian role in order to protect the design that was submitted to planning.

“We spent more than four years embedding ourselves in the culture of the city and the club during the design process. I believe that level of commitment contributed to the overwhelmingly supportive response to the design.”

Meis architects was appointed to the Everton stadium project in 2016. Sheppard Robson was brought on board a year later before effectively being replaced by Pattern at the end of 2018.

It is understood that the New York firm had also teamed up with Manchester-based stadium specialists AFL Architects to bolster its specialist and local knowledge.

Last summer, Meis architects revealed images of its designs for Everton.

The practice said the brick base of the proposed stadium paid homage to Scottish architect Archibald Leitch’s latticework at the club’s current Goodison Park home, adding that the futuristic steel-and-glass upper level provided a modern flourish.

The scheme will provide a large, steep south stand to house 13,000 home fans on match days, with supporters as close to the action as regulations allow. Both the north and south stands could be converted into safe standing if regulations change.

Everton revealed at the start of 2018 that the cost of the stadium had “escalated significantly”.
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I really cant see what he hopes to achieve (professionally) with this continued bleating.

It's not a good look.
 

Modern07 said:
See Meis has opened up a little further on this although there is nothing we didn't already know in this - he's just clearly not happy...


Architect Dan Meis has admitted he is "extremely disappointed" at being dropped from the delivery of Everton Football Club’s new stadium.

The founder of Meis architects said the New York practice had worked hard to get “under the skin” of the Merseyside club and the city of Liverpool while designing the 52,000-seater stadium.

Everton’s contractor, Laing O’Rourke, has appointed London practice Pattern Design as technical architect for the arena planned for Bramley-Moore Dock.

It is understood that Meis learned last month that his firm – which drew up the original designs and had been involved in the job since 2016 – would not be appointed for any role on the delivery of the project.

“I was extremely disappointed to learn that we wouldn’t be involved in the ongoing work on the stadium,” he told Architects’ Journal, NCE’s sister publication.

“It is my belief that it is critical to have the design architect in a guardian role in order to protect the design that was submitted to planning.

“We spent more than four years embedding ourselves in the culture of the city and the club during the design process. I believe that level of commitment contributed to the overwhelmingly supportive response to the design.”

Meis architects was appointed to the Everton stadium project in 2016. Sheppard Robson was brought on board a year later before effectively being replaced by Pattern at the end of 2018.

It is understood that the New York firm had also teamed up with Manchester-based stadium specialists AFL Architects to bolster its specialist and local knowledge.

Last summer, Meis architects revealed images of its designs for Everton.

The practice said the brick base of the proposed stadium paid homage to Scottish architect Archibald Leitch’s latticework at the club’s current Goodison Park home, adding that the futuristic steel-and-glass upper level provided a modern flourish.

The scheme will provide a large, steep south stand to house 13,000 home fans on match days, with supporters as close to the action as regulations allow. Both the north and south stands could be converted into safe standing if regulations change.

Everton revealed at the start of 2018 that the cost of the stadium had “escalated significantly”.
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The founder of Meis architects said the New York practice had worked hard to get “under the skin” of the Merseyside club and the city of Liverpool while designing the 52,000-seater stadium...“We spent more than four years embedding ourselves in the culture of the city and the club during the design process. I believe that level of commitment contributed to the overwhelmingly supportive response to the design."

That confirms to me what I always felt about Meis: he was playing the fanbase for material reasons. All the 'we blues' and 'NSNO' stuff always looked like a desperate pitch by a clueless outsider to line their pockets.

FWIW I never thought his design was anywhere near mind blowing and I always stated that the location was hard to make any stadium look bad. I wouldn't mind one bit if Pattern "tweaked" extensively along the way and handed the club a different look to the stadium Meis presented. The Leitch criss crosses were the touch of a man who was trying too hard to 'connect' with the club fanbase (as per that statement above). That needs to go. We dont need to live in the past. When the club shifted from Anfield the club's board didn't want to recreate it in Walton, they struck out with a new vision. That's what we should do now. No backwards glances.
 
davek said:
The founder of Meis architects said the New York practice had worked hard to get “under the skin” of the Merseyside club and the city of Liverpool while designing the 52,000-seater stadium...“We spent more than four years embedding ourselves in the culture of the city and the club during the design process. I believe that level of commitment contributed to the overwhelmingly supportive response to the design."

That confirms to me what I always felt about Meis: he was playing the fanbase for material reasons. All the 'we blues' and 'NSNO' stuff always looked like a desperate pitch by a clueless outsider to line their pockets.

FWIW I never thought his design was anywhere near mind blowing and I always stated that the location was hard to make any stadium look bad. I wouldn't mind one bit if Pattern "tweaked" extensively along the way and handed the club a different look to the stadium Meis presented. The Leitch criss crosses were the touch of a man who was trying too hard to 'connect' with the club fanbase (as per that statement above). That needs to go. We dont need to live in the past. When the club shifted from Anfield the club's board didn't want to recreate it in Walton, they struck out with a new vision. That's what we should do now. No backwards glances.
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Never change, Dave
 

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