New Everton Stadium

Tom Hughes said:
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.
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The latter. Definitely the latter.

The roof is all on this build.

That said, I'd 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 place 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.
 

My neighbours sons girlfriends aunties mates husband works for a fit out company called Overbury who are on site now, and he’s hearing the statue locations at the front are going to have a giant bronze Freidkin Group logo on one side and a giant bronze Bald Eagle draped in the Stars and Stripes on the other.
Not claiming to be ITK so don’t shoot the messenger.
 
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Directly copying the look of eg The Tobacco Warehouse would definitely be pastiche. Using the local architecture as an influence and launching point for a modernist take is probably the right call by Meis.

Some of the LOR quality control has left a little to be desired in matching the tone of brick and roof panels but these things do tend to even out over time with wear and weathering and it should not detract from the overall job they have done.

When all is said and done it is distinctive and different to the majority of modern stadium builds. That will always produce some strong takes for and against. It isn’t perfect. Nothing is. It is ours and at least for me it is something we can and should be proud about.
 

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