With all due respect, I don’t believe Tom is a stadium architect? yet he is disagreeing with people who are paid millions to design stadiums around the world.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion but I’d tend to go with the experts opinion.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion but I’d tend to go with the experts opinion.
Gardocki
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The only difference between the Spurs design and Dan Meis’ is that the fans at the lower sections are closer in BMD, while the fans in the upper tiers are the same. I know the drawings have changed slightly, but the general design principles haven’t.
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These are examples of taking it too far which then requires supports to prop them up. I think almost the whole of the Principality's middle tier overhangs the lower (something like 14 rows) but least it's cantilevered to not have stanchions. That brings everyone in the upper tier closer to the action which will help the atmosphere.
Except leading stadium architects say overlapping tiers are detrimental to creating an atmosphere.
They’ve obviously never sat in my seat about 3/4 in the Street End or been to the Principality.
Never ceases to amaze me how the layman seems to think he knows better than a specialist with a lifetime of experience.
Kris75
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As if this man knows what football is!
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Like I said it may have a small benefit but like @PhilM wrote above for all the detrimentalness(
) it doesn't appear to make that much difference. As someone who was at the Principality when Wales won the Grand Slam in 2008 I don't think I've ever heard anything as loud.No overlapping tier stadiums are cheaper and easier to build, which may have also have something to do with it.
On many issues yes, but I don’t think you can always ignore a ‘layman’s experiences’, but perhaps that’s because I’m an empiricist at heart.
I have lifetime’s experience of watching Everton home and away alongside visiting many other grounds for football and other sports.
Surely, it’s not all purely academic and binary and depends on multiple factors?
Well when a client asks an architect to create a stadium with the best atmosphere, the expert architects believe not having overlapping tiers is best.Like I said it may have a small benefit but like @PhilM wrote above for all the detrimentalness(
No overlapping tier stadiums are cheaper and easier to build, which may have also have something to do with it.
I am inclined to believe the experts.
After all, the stadium with the best atmosphere in Europe - The Westfalenstadion, has no overlapping tiers.
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Funny how most people deride the atmosphere in these modern stadiums that were designed to make them as loud as possible...nothing to do with the fact you need a pair of binoculars to see and a megaphone to be heard I'm sure.
I am taking it to the extreme of course but to me the distance negates the benefits and I'm not going to go crazy over 0.7 of a decibel. At the end of the day the fans dictate how loud it is and not the building.
Davideeyore
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I mentioned this a few weeks back. In response to a post an article from Lyndon Lloyd.
Outside no one can deny it's unique. Inside it's unremarkable to me. No overhang or double decker stands. It could also be any ground like Brighton or the revamped White Hart Lane (before demolition). And without the Leitch criss cross, it doesn't distinguish it as 'obviously Everton'.
We could have had overhanging or double decker stands, especially the north stand and the east/west stands. Why not? Is the A/R end at the RS stadium not double decker? What about Chelsea's goal ends? Why not have mock Bullens Road criss cross? Archibald Leitch's design might not be unique but it defo says home.
Home from home. Just a thought.
BirkenheadBlue
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Davideeyore
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I think you need to put it in perspective. Joking about us knowing more about an architect is all very well, but we are the supporters who know what a football ground is all about; we know our ground was the first ground to have 4 double decker stands, we have a lifetime of experience of that!
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See my post above. Pretty much answers most of it. Dortmund have a dirty great big standing area that has 20k fans in it alone, they are also some of the most vocal supporters in Europe. Put them in ANY stadium in the world even WHAM's and they will still make it seem that they have a great atmosphere.
I have never said it doesn't help make it better on a computer model somewhere but we are talking marginal gains, what you can quantify for sure is how the view is for every supporter, see the difference between stadiums that have overlapping tiers?