Dynamo Downtown Stadium Thread

Remember this image?



It came from this display posted by NewTex before:

http://www.eadohouston.com/downloads...0Promenade.pdf

If you notice though, the link no longer exists. It was initially available on the homepage here:
http://www.eadohouston.com/index.html

Curious what happened there. Hope they go through with the project. The link was basically the masterplan to what EaDo plans to do in a revitalization effort around the new Dynamo stadium. Spruced up retail, residential, people walking, even a band that looked like Kiss performing in the town square with a couple family members watching. We all know we would never live to see that though. Of course, I'm referring to people walking in Houston...

 

I like that design because it lets in a breeze from the South end

 

Let's get'r done!
When can we see the shovels hit the dirt?

 

BREAKING NEWS:

The Dynamo Stadium has just hit the Populous website with a few interesting new details.

http://portfolio.populous.com/projects/houstondynamo.html

EDIT: I'd also say the Rendering Populous has up appears to be slightly different form the one's we've seen ....subtly. (Look at Ticket box on Texas Ave side of the Stadium)

Preliminary Concept


Rendering on Populous's Website.

 

Hmm..... OK, I might have to believe in this rendering a little more.

 

The Houston Dynamo were a 2006 Major League Soccer expansion franchise, and their new stadium planned for the 2012 season is one of the central features of Houston's East Downtown Redevelopment Plan. The 22,000-seat stadium (with expansion capacity to 30,000 seats) will be designed to feature soccer and accommodate multi-use events such as football, lacrosse, rugby and concerts.

The design approach makes use of simple and common materials that refer to the area's industrial heritage, while creating a distinctive civic landmark in an emerging urban neighborhood. A tessellated exterior skin mediates the scale of its context while defining a bold architectural statement in the Houston skyline. Composed of geometrically composed expanded metal sheets and orange polycarbonate infill, this continuous exterior surface surrounds the stadium and provides a dynamic sense of enclosure while enhancing the spectator experience.

Highlighted in orange polycarbonate, articulated openings in the skin range from 3-story general spectator entries to pedestrian scaled ticketing window. The interior concourse continues this theme, with the bowl underside expressed with the team's orange colors to enliven the space.

The Houston MLS Stadium will be a unique precedent for American soccer stadia and innovative design for the region.

 

They're bringing SuperDynamo back too?!

 

I posted this on the other thread in MLS News in regards to Populous's seating capacity figure and how it may relate in regards to a stage. Thought its worth mentioning here...

 

Wow, that would be a big stage if it can expand capacity by 8,000 or a 27% increase. That seems unlikely to me. I think there will be stage but it is not going to be such a big area that you could add 8,000 seats for specific events. I think the 30,000 number is from adding onto the stadium with additional construction.

They could also be referring to concert attendance. Toyota Park holds 20,000 for soccer but 28,000 for concerts because they put seats on the field.

Reading it again, I think they mean eventual possible stadium expansion to 30,000, not just putting seats on a stage.

 

Thats what I thought too . . . . 20k with the possibility of adding another level or expanding one of the sides for 30k.

 

Reading it again, your idea about Toyota Park sounds about right. That's probably what it is.

Since this is a full bowl on all sides, the only way to expand would be upwards, by adding another level.

 

Which they do plan on doing eventually.

 

I can tell you for a fact that our FO knows for sure that Metro's future plans for Texas Ave have been duely noted. The North End as show from the rendering above will be where Texas Ave. runs and that's the future Metro Rail line stop for downtown.
To add to this is that the East and West sides, Hutchins and Dowling, will be literally backs up to the wall with the demensions of real estate space purchased in the project by AEG and thus what is built on the East and West sides will not be able to expanded upon.
So, this leads me to conclude that the only side of Dynamo Park that will be do able for future seating expansion is the South End.
This is probably why that latest rendering with the added CoH shopping and eating block shows Dynamo Park with moderate roofs over the East and West and a very sturdy roof for the entire North End.
Simply put, what I have been told is that where the roofs go that's where the club cannot forsee future Stadium expansion so roofs will indeed be put in from Day 1 for the majority of the Stadium.

 

Yeah it depends on the final design. I have heard instead of full roof on all four sides they will have it on two with light cover on the North and south. At any rate, they will design with the option to expand in one direction (up or otherwise).

 

I'm all for no roofs.. Soccer is so lovely in October in these parts..to bad it won't be this year but hey..we're working on 2011 and beyond now.

 

The site is actually large enough for the stadium to be expanded on both South and North ends, despite rail yet to be constructed on Texas Ave. The addition of MetroRail on Texas Ave will not chew up any of the Dynamo's site due to the buildings around it, like Ballpark Lofts one block east, which is built right up to the curb. The lofts may loose its curbside parking slots here, but the sidewalks of the Dynamo Stadium site are set back further in then the curbside spots for the lofts IIRC.

THIS is why I believe we wont have a full roof, rather 2 sideline roofs. Weather. With 2 sideline roofs, some areas can be shaded while allowing breezes to flow in to cool down the place. The only full roof design that would allow wind to flow in would be a hovering roof, like at Stade France. But that would have been too expensive.

 

inb4 Westside unrelated to stadium Metro fail news

http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-metro-grant-story,0,2020318.story

 

"We can spend a lot of time speculating on what happened."

Eeeer - how about all expenses paid trips to Spain to inspect facilities for Metro staff?

 

I'm not sure why they keep calling it a $900 million mistake. Metro will have to re-bid to get the $900 million grant from the federal government but the mistake at this point may only cost them the $40 million they have already spent with the Spanish company.

 

You know, I really wanted to post something about the taxpayer-funded retards that run METRO and how their usually corrupt self screwed themselves, but I refrained.

Suffice it to say, I think it is highly unlikely anyone takes a train to the new stadium for a long time.

 

I will be taking the train to the new stadium once they are built!

 

None of your tax dollars will be used for this stadium!!!