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What should the new stadium look like?

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But like bigger, and with glass sides.
 
I never used to like American stadiums. They all seemed to be one tier, open air, huge bowl type stadiums. Boring to look at, probably crap for atmosphere and not suited to our climate!

More recently, there are a lot of quirky and unique designs being built in the USA. In Europe, we are seeing lots of multi-tier bowl stadiums being built with a lower tier, a mid-level club/corporate level, and an upper tier. A whole generation of identikit stadiums are being built. Understandable..but it would be nice if we could be different.

I like the idea of a 'city view' end of the ground. They do it well in the USA....mainly because there is a view of something worth looking at!!

What Americans do well is to understand that a match day is a also an event day, not just a short match. They build a venue that gets people in as early as possible and are happy to stay in after the game has finished. All this time, they are spending money!!!!

A typical match day, stadium experience in the UK..... Crap food, warm beer, overpriced and poor quality. Fans turn up at the ground as late as possible and rush to leave as soon as possible. There is a reason for this!
 

Respect the landscape. Respect the heritage of the team and city. Don't plunk down some horrific generic spaceship on the dock just because some trendy, de rigueur architect has been hired to design it. I'm looking at you Man City.
 


I really like the idea of it being rectangular, 4 sides etc so it's why this clip resonates with me. About 18 secs in you get the idea of a stadium, although it's not a stadium.




I'm not averse to the idea of incorporating other functions, so this one also floats my boat.
 
An awful lot of people on here are thinking we are getting a world class stadium. It's great to hope for that but in reality I can't see it. I'm not trying to be a downer or curb enthusiasm for our new stadium but with the money being spent on other stadiums around the world, our budget seems in the mid range if the quoted numbers in the media are true (£300-£450million).
I think we have the right guy doing the design & for our money we will get a great stadium for our needs but i cant see it having removable pitches or flexible stands or a fully closed roof or a cheese room. In reality there are now many many stadiums already operating that do many or all of these things & the billion dollar stadiums still to be built will take that further.
We have a cracking location, we have a cracking club & to us, our new ground will be awesome but it won't be world class, it won't be ground breaking & it won't tell the football world that we are now a force. Most clubs won't even care right now.

The picture of Lille's stadium a few posts before this kind of sums up my point. How many of us really knew about it? We couldn't care before that thier pitch moved about. It's only now that we bothered to look. There are many more grounds like this.

I really do think our new ground will look boss all light up on the Mersey & will be picture perfect but that is all. It is however a start to create that ' big club' mentality we need to show we are year in year out from now on.
 
Stephen Gibson said:
An awful lot of people on here are thinking we are getting a world class stadium. It's great to hope for that but in reality I can't see it. I'm not trying to be a downer or curb enthusiasm for our new stadium but with the money being spent on other stadiums around the world, our budget seems in the mid range if the quoted numbers in the media are true (£300-£450million).
I think we have the right guy doing the design & for our money we will get a great stadium for our needs but i cant see it having removable pitches or flexible stands or a fully closed roof or a cheese room. In reality there are now many many stadiums already operating that do many or all of these things & the billion dollar stadiums still to be built will take that further.
We have a cracking location, we have a cracking club & to us, our new ground will be awesome but it won't be world class, it won't be ground breaking & it won't tell the football world that we are now a force. Most clubs won't even care right now.

The picture of Lille's stadium a few posts before this kind of sums up my point. How many of us really knew about it? We couldn't care before that thier pitch moved about. It's only now that we bothered to look. There are many more grounds like this.

I really do think our new ground will look boss all light up on the Mersey & will be picture perfect but that is all. It is however a start to create that ' big club' mentality we need to show we are year in year out from now on.
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300-450 million will buy you considerably more if you don't need to transport all of your steel and concrete by road
 

As long as it's intimidating and teams hate going there am not too fussed.

Yeah it would be a great to have a groundbreaking stadium but for me I just want somewhere teams hate going and we enjoy going.
 

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