It'd best be a nice building!!! My company is about to merge with RRD (thank god I got in on the stock options early!! Plus the 1000 shares they gave me for all my hard work). I don't wanna have to go to a crappy building when I come back to crack skulls...
You can look at bofill's work at Bofill.com I forgot to mention that he also designed Dearborn Center.
Here are some of my favorites. The capacities range from 18,686 to 31,000: Stadion Wals – (SV Wüstenrot Salzburg) – Austria Capacity: 18,686 (Expandable to 30,000) http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwe...en/Oesterreich/Salzburg_neu/wals_elroy_02.jpg http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwe...isten/Oesterreich/Salzburg_neu/gr_wals_03.jpg Stade de Genève (Servette FC Genève) – Switzerland Capacity: 30,020 http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwelt-Stadien-Arenen/Stadionlisten/Schweiz/Genf/sb_servette_01.jpg http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwelt-Stadien-Arenen/Stadionlisten/Schweiz/Genf/servette_marc_03.jpg Nieuw Galgenwaard (FC Utrect) – Netherlands Capacity: 21,072 http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwe...sten-Niederlande/FC-Utrecht/sv_Utrecht_09.jpg http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwe...sten-Niederlande/FC-Utrecht/sv_Utrecht_10.jpg Parkstad Limburg Stadion (SV Roda JC Kerkrade) – Netherlands Capacity: 19,200 http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwe...adionlisten-Niederlande/Roda/sv_Rodajc_01.jpg http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwe...adionlisten-Niederlande/Roda/sv_Rodajc_05.jpg Stadion am Bruchweg (1. FSV Mainz 05) – Germany Capacity: 20,000 http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwelt-Stadien-Arenen/Stadionneubau/Deutschland/Mainz/Mainz_04.jpg Wedaustadion Duisburg/MSV Arena (MSV Duisberg) – Germany Capacity: 31,000 MPEG Animation: http://www.msv-arena.de/images/stadion_animation.mpg http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwelt-Stadien-Arenen/Stadionneubau/Deutschland/Duisburg/modell.jpg [Kingston Communications Stadium (Hull City AFC) – England Capacity: 25,504 http://www.stadionwelt.de/Stadionwelt-Stadien-Arenen/Stadionlisten/England/Hull/KC_MvdB_01.jpg
Shimizu S-Pulse's stadium in Japan, cap 20,400. Something similar that's a little larger with covered sides would do for me. I like the stands in the ends.
And it will be expanded, as Salzburg is one of the host cities for Euro 2008. Here is another 2008 stadium: St. Jakob Park, Basel (30,000)
do not mention the name of the dirty scum S-Pulse here! They are a disgrace to soccer in Japan and should be thrown into the ocean and made to go play against Guam. As for a good stadium, try this one, its one of my favorties! http://www.wldcup.com/Asia/stadia/hakata.html its covered sides, with 22-23k seating capacity. I have sat all over it, and there is not a bad seat in the house!
Oh man... I LOVE it. Seriously, that may be one of the best designs I've seen yet. I think for our purposes we could do something a little more angular and have a slightly more retro/traditional slant on that idea but that's the right direction. Kick ass.
Always been partial to the Reebok in Bolton. http://www.britishpremiersoccer.com/reebok.html Maybe have a roof over the sides, take away the upper deck on the ends. Capacity of anywhere from 25,000 to 35,000. Possibly have a brick exterior and there you go...although then it wouldn't be too different from the Hakata Stadium.
you see the fan section at the top? That's the vistors section, since I hate the team in the city I lived in, I sat there most of the time, unless it was J League team that I thought sucked horribly. I think its as close as I have been to a field, without it being the horrible carpets of Naperville, or me rushing the field to teardown the goals posts at Memorial Stadium in Champaign.
Stadium design I love that Basel stadium. Hakata on the other hand looks like CRAP. Move on gentleman.