Exactly. It's not at all integrated with the rest of the stadium. The racetracks did a much more aesthetic job of incorporating the towers into the design. I've never been to the stadiums at Michigan or ND, but their lower bowls don't appear to be as flat as at Levi's.
The stadium looks OK from the inside except for that giant Holiday Inn on one side, but the outside - I actually get depressed just from looking at it, if not actually physically ill.
With the winds from off the bay, it's freezing in the winter and without a roof and in the summer, i't blistering hot! After spending $1.3 billion dollars on Levi's , you would think they could have done a better job. It's more than ugly!
It was kinda nice before Mount Davis went up. Concrete utilitarian exterior but nice inside the stadium.
I loved watching A's games at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum circa late 1980s. Easy access from BART (while living in Berkeley during a summer of working in SF while in law school), and beautiful views of the hills and laid back vibe, and pretty good concessions.
The Salt-Pond A8 which are the marsh lands across 237 and Alviso...... My friends went to the college bowl game in late December 2017 between Arizona and Purdue at Levi's and they said with the wind chill, it was freezing.
I have some good memories seeing games there as a kid. I was both an A's and Giants fan in those days (though didn't see a lot of games of either), and the A's games were a lot warmer . As some point I started not liking the Giants and only really liking the A's. I think it was because everyone started liking the Giants and I wanted to be contrarian .
Levi's' Stadium is a huge improvement over Candlestick Park but that is not a surprising because the Stick sucked.
I must admit that when we would attend games at the Stick, I would wear short sleeves at Niner games in November but had to wear gloves , a scarf and a hat at Giants baseball games in July and August.
Since no one else has posted it yet, "the coldest winter I spent was a summer in San Francisco." -Mark Twain (allegedly)
Not really. I'm a Spartan fan, but UH is usually fun to watch, they're in the MWC and we stole their QB so I like them for that.
Boo. I will grant that Mt. Davis ruined what was previously one of the nicest views in professional sports. But even still, the Coliseum has an identity and is arranged in such a way that an actual human being can enjoy a game. The view of the field is better from more seats there than at any other stadium I've ever been to. Its circular nature essentially guarantees it to be superior to any other shape. Levi's, on the other hand, literally pits its wealthiest patrons against its poorest. The wealthy are sealed off from everyone else in a glass tower while everyone else gets altitude sickness or blinded by the sun. And to top it all off, it has no visual identity because its design incorporates more negative space than actual stadium. It's like a sick architectural joke.
While I've always liked the Coliseum (being an old time Giants fan I thought it was a jewel), Multipurpose stadiums suck. This picture shows why.. Look at the wasted space! You're so far back from the sidelines and those are the biggest foul territories in all of baseball!