I would like to say that my school, Grinnell College, just had their new athletic complex designed by Cesar Pelli and Associates. Design: http://www.grinnell.edu/campusplan/athleticfacilities/photos/ Article: September 5, 2003 Grinnell College adopts plans for new athletic facility GRINNELL, Iowa - Plans for construction for the first phase of a new athletic center at Grinnell College have been approved by the Grinnell College board of trustees, with ground-breaking for construction expected in early October. "The design is functional, exciting, impressive," praised Dee Fairchild, director of athletics. Designed by the architectural firms, Cesar Pelli & Associates and Sasaki Associates, the facility will be located southeast of Rosenbloom Field, but north of Tenth Avenue. "Our goal is to serve the athletic, wellness, and recreation needs of our students, faculty, staff, and a number of people in the local community," said Russell K. Osgood, president of Grinnell College. "The new athletic center, as designed by Cesar Pelli and Sasaki Associates, will greatly improve our ability to meet these needs and will enhance both the College and the Grinnell community." Phase-one of the facility, with a cost of approximately $20 million, will include a basketball/volleyball performance gymnasium, a fitness/weight center, an auxiliary gym, and a support/locker area. Estimated completion of the first phase is early in 2005. The article goes on, but you get the picture.
The Only Architect for the Job! Mike Brady will come up with a real swell design! I tried to post a photo, but couldn't figure out how to import it into the post. Imagine amongst yourselves.
Just remember that Lohan's only the Chicago liaison. The primary architects are New York based (that, or Blair's just trying to keep Chicago based architects blameless). http://www.chicagotribune.com/featu...ep07,1,1909537.story?coll=chi-leisurearts-hed Misread, but I can see where you could think I was implying that. No, what I think is that Jahn was trying to make the new dorms fit into the Mies designed campus, and trying to inject some life, form, and motion without making the buildings stick out like a sore thumb. I think he did his job very well. I've often wondered if it wouldn't be a good idea to hold a contest for the stadium design. Submit it to IIT, Univ of Wisconsin, and a few other architecture schools, and see if some of the schools can come up with something exciting. It could be a cheap way to go, we could get some really great ideas, and it could boost some school's image.
Hehe, I like Mies, but a stadium needs a soul... Hear, hear! I just want something where if the ball leaves the field at "a high rate of speed" (bad grammer there, btw), the first row won't have time to react, and an overhanging roof so all the opposing team can hear is the best fans in mls...
I'm well aware Wood+Zapata are the architects of the stadium itself (and they are Boston-based) and Lohan is the keeper of the Burnham Park master plan. But to hear Lohan speak, and Kamin react to him you'd think Lohan is the Lakefront Antichrist My thoughts EXACTLY.
In all seriousness, maybe Santiago Calatrava? Maybe a bit high-end but he DID design the Milwaukee Art Museum (midwest connection) and designed at least the main stadium for the 2006 Athens games (sports/soccer connection). And he is, indeed, world renowned for his (take cover, incoming bad joke) bridge-building. Only other possibility that comes to mind is maybe Jose Rafael Moreno who is a Pritzker winner and has a lot of American work, but it's all in the academic/museum arena though...no athletics. Now, he's not Spanish, but Ricardo Legorretta would be....interesting
I thought this would be an obvious one. Ricardo Bofill. He's spanish (Catalan to be exact). He's also the designer of the R.R. Donelly Center. So he's designed for Chicago before. On top of that, he recently designed Zaragoza'a new soccer stadium. I happen to be a Bofill fan.
I wonder what Peter Wilt would think of a Fire-equivalent of the following: Primary Tenant: SV Wüstenrot Salzburg Country: Austria Facility: Stadion Salzburg Wals – Siezenheim Opening Game: March 8, 2003 Total Facility Cost: $57.3 million Capacity: 18,686 (13,444 regular seats, 4,084 standing room places, 558 VIP club seats, 172 seats in total of 20 skyboxes/suites, 40 seats in press box, 34 wheelchair spaces). Designed to be expandable to 30,000. Parking: 2,500 spaces for cars, 800 spaces for buses. Architects: Schuster Architekten Düsseldorf (http://www.schusterarchitekten.de/) Project Overview (In German): http://www.zement.at/downloads/Stadion_Salzburg_02_03.pdf More images here: http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwe...dionlisten/Oesterreich/Salzburg_neu/Wals.html And here: http://www.stadion.at/ Talk amongst yourselves. The Magpie
Well, I can tell you that he won't like the roof. He has stated many times that the new home of the Fire will NOT have a roof over all four sides. It is a stunning stadium though. I'd be happy sticking with a 28k seat stadium and a full roof for ever (or at least the forseeable future), but the higher ups want to be able to expand big time, should the sport take off. It's their money, so it's not my call to make. P.S. I really do love that stadium. It would put the HDC to Shame. PP.SS. That $57m price tag looks mighty nice, but you gotta figure something like that would cost about $90m in Chicago with the added amenities and...well...other stuff. They don't call it the windy city because of the weather
Well, once, at least. Please note that the stadium in question has a capacity of less than 19k, and a roof, and is designed to be expandable to 30k. Conclusion: roofs and expandability are not mutually exclusive.
"Well, I can tell you that he won't like the roof..." Won't like the roof, or can justify not having a roof? Big an important distinction my friend, and I should know. The Magpie
Some Interesting Stadiums... http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/africa/south_africa/bloemfontein_rugby.shtml http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/germany/niedersachsen/wolfsburg_vw_arena.shtml http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/portugal/faro/sao_joao_algarve.shtml http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/portugal/coimbra/coimbra_municipal.shtml http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/switzerland/suisse_romande/geneve_praille.shtml http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/greece/heraklion_pankritiko.shtml http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/asia/japan/kobe_wing.shtml All Under 30,000 Cap...
Re: Some Interesting Stadiums... This one looks cool, but expensive. And the capacity is 34,000 so it's too big. Not a big fan of the others. Besides, I think I like the simpler design of the stadium on the previous page.
That's a good possibility. He may have designed a new stadium for Zaragoza, though, but if he had it was never built. The Romareda is still their home. I think he had one of the Stade de France finalist designs too that wasn't constructed as well. Not personally a big fan of the Donnelly Center, but Bofill is a good guess.
Re: Re: Some Interesting Stadiums... I think that is the ideal size for the Firehouse. And it is a beautiful stadium.
Well, at my last apartment, I would be looking at the Donnelly Center every morning when I woke up. I guess I may have grown to love it, but I really think it is a beautiful building.