New Everton Stadium

[davek]

Tbh a brick facade imitating a dock warehouse is pastiche. A purest might even say it's actually only half-brick cladding. The issue is whether it is a successful homage to, or a parody of.... that architectural style.

The black cladding detail is meant to imitate the vertical shuttered loading-bays, that you see in these old warehousees, but I can't say I have ever seen any warehouse where there is so many per frontage, nor so irregularly spaced. During the build, when only the frames were in place for some of these vertical spaces, they looked like warehouse window frames and I thought some of them were going to be glazed, like the Tobacco warehouse over the road. Offering more natural light inside too. Most people seem to like the final product, so maybe it all works, or maybe the roof is a more dominant and possibly distracting feature.

The latter. Definitely the latter.

The roof is all on this build.

That said, Ild rather even have the facade we have than the exteriors of the Emirates or Tottenham Stadium. Way too much glazing to it for my liking. There's a pace for glazing on a stadium and I quite like seeing old Victorian brick buildings brought back to life and energised with some glazed features to it around entrances etc. I think what you say about it looking at one stage that our stadium could have had some warehouse window frames to it should have been done. Maybe that can be revisited. There's the entrances to the east and west stands too I suppose we cant forget about.