New Everton Stadium

[Bedfordblue]

Love the cone at the beginning

 

[davek]

As others have said, the brick panelling needs to be seen within the context of the surrounding area. Walk up from town and it REALLY belongs now. Maybe the bricks have purposely dulled a bit? I also love the way you see the outward curvature of the roof from that Waterloo road/Regent road angle, sort of bulging out at the middle then coming back in. It's architecturally stunning. Then, by the time you get to the stadium itself, it looks like a giant basking shark coming up out of a tobacco warehouse. To me, it looks awesome from every angle and, architecturally, it's far superior to any other stadium I have seen.

All opinions on creative endeavours are valid, but my mind boggles at how anyone could go down there and walk away thinking 'well Dan Meis did his best to screw THAT up!!' @davek can you give examples of stadiums where the architect got it right? So we can have context for your comments about Meis getting it wrong?

Meis sold us the deceit of 'the wave'. Am I wrong to point that out? Shall I just look at the logo that still accompanies this stadium project and ignore that it bears only the slightest resemblance to the final built outcome?

I've said time after time that I dont buy into a hybrid design of futurism and a nineteenth century warehouse style.

I'd have gone for something much bolder, but then again I was probably in a minority of wanting Will Alsop's The Cloud.

 

[Trowel]

Wyness thinks we are getting Qatar Airways for a naming sponsor.

I watched it to save others from the pain - as we can all imagine, both he and the presenter are just grasping at recent rumours (no mention of the separate rumours that Qatar Airways are supposedly in talks with Chelsea, which would kibosh anything), no added insight that you couldn't concoct just from reading threads on here.

"The sort of numbers I'm hearing are 10 year deals around the £10-£15m mark, toward the upper end... Qatar Airways would be in that category... A lot of talks about Friedkin's Toyota links, could still be in the background"

 

[WelshBlue92]

I missed the roof design/wet seats discourse but its just a matter of geometry (example sketch below), the current upward tilting design at BMD would require an extension that pretty much covers the whole pitch in order to have seat coverage similar to a stadium like Goodison that has a downward sloping roof.
There's pros and cons to both design styles.

Personally I'd be in favour of a retractable roof and the added benefits it brings of making the venue multipurpose and enclosed (the principality has a great atmosphere because of this. Although whether the roof could support the additional weight of a retractable system, or if we could afford the additional cost remains to be seen.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

I watched it to save others from the pain - as we can all imagine, both he and the presenter are just grasping at recent rumours (no mention of the separate rumours that Qatar Airways are supposedly in talks with Chelsea, which would kibosh anything), no added insight that you couldn't concoct just from reading threads on here.

"The sort of numbers I'm hearing are 10 year deals around the £10-£15m mark, toward the upper end... Qatar Airways would be in that category... A lot of talks about Friedkin's Toyota links, could still be in the background"

Can't imagine the likes of Qatar going anywhere near us while we're in a perpetual relegation scrap and the chances of us dropping down into the championship a very real possibility.

 

[ultra]

Tom and Dave sucking the life out of the thread and its not even 10 o'clock.

Happy New Year y'all

Very true. Lots of posts with a thick blue stripe here.

 

[trueblue84]

I hope we have some proper winter weather so we can see the stadium under snow. Should give some on here a new angle of attack as well.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Meis sold us the deceit of 'the wave'. Am I wrong to point that out? Shall I just look at the logo that still accompanies this stadium project and ignore that it bears only the slightest resemblance to the final built outcome?

I've said time after time that I dont buy into a hybrid design of futurism and a nineteenth century warehouse style.

I'd have gone for something much bolder, but then again I was probably in a minority of wanting Will Alsop's The Cloud.

He designed it, between Everton and Buro Happold they deleted it. Nothing to do with Meis.

As was the Western Terrace which was not on Meis design, but added to provide extra protection against the weather.

 

[davek]

He designed it, between Everton and Buro Happold they deleted it. Nothing to do with Meis.

As was the Western Terrace which was not on Meis design, but added to provide extra protection against the weather.

Did he criticise it or just come back on board and said nothing?

 

[mahermi1]

Did he criticise it or just come back on board and said nothing?

What's next Dave ? Was Meis caught with a bottle of Budweiser during Covid ?
Let it go his design was excellent and from what I can make out, the wave vanished because the sixty seater stadium was rejected as, too expensive, Historic England and Co complaining over height restrictions and Everton's sayso. What could Meis do stamp his feet.

 

[Tipp blue]

Still not convinced it was best location as in the water, environmental change and predicted rises in sea levels. Time will tell!

If sea levels rise enough to effect the stadium then there's bigger issues for people than flooded stadiums.

 

[Noggsy blue]

 

[toffeeblue9]

I’d love to know how much those apartments cost.

I know someone, a scouse fella, who owns one

He's a very wealthy fella, so I don't think it's actually going to have a huge impact on his life, but he did say last time I saw him that he'd end up doing very well out of it.

 

[Nymzee]

 

[Connor]

https://www.evertonfc.com/season-25-26/test-events/