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Architectural renderings of the new Atlanta Falcons stadium have been released.
http://m.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/06/25/falcons-release-9-new-r...
Bowl of tortilla chips? Origami? An architectural reference to the Falcons logo?
Maybe it's just me, but I think they might have overdone the whole "rise up" exhortation thing.
The Chick-Fila Dome aka The Cootie Catcher
No, next to where it is. The dome will then be leveled and made into a parking garage.
Don - you are just too out of touch with what's hip these days... the young kids are going to love this. It's like an Oregon helmet and a Baylor uniform covering concrete and metal
While I won't contest your point—get off my lawn, by the way—what's totally hip right now is guaranteed to be pathetically passé pretty quickly.
I doubt that the architects of an NFL stadium were thinking of "young kids" when designing it anyhow.
While I'm not a huge fan of the basic architectural shapes of this Falcons facility, I do think that it's a huge improvement over the design of the first generation of domes in Detroit, Seattle, Houston, New Orleans, and other cities.
Looks like the horseshoe
... I kinda like it and prefer bold designs to dull designs like Ford Field, which simply looks like a giant warehouse in the aerial view and an office building from street level.
I will say, though, I don't like the opening at the top of Atlanta's new stadium. For television viewing, it creates awful shadows, even if it protects the fans from inclement weather conditions.
Ford Warehouse (with gaudy Ford advertisement on top):
Office building:
From close up. But I can see it from my bedroom window and the roof/back looks pretty blech.
Plopping an ultramodern Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe in Detroit's old-style art-deco, somewhat industrial downtown would've been a horrible idea.
buys a lot of ugly
I will admit that that I rather like the futuristic look of the place, although for some reason the top view makes me think that people will fly over and see a giant sphincter in the middle of Atlanta, not to mention the way that might play with light and shadow on television for some distracting viewing. Overall, however, I kind of like the side and interior views - it looked like one rendering showed the area just outside the bowls having yard markers corresponding to your apprxoimate location on the field, which I am sure could be useful as a feature.
Rainy days will be interesting. Looks like the cheap seats will be nice and dry while they watch water pour down on the players and front row ticket holders. In Georgia, it seems like you'd want to enjoy some sunshine while sitting at a game. They'll also always have half the field in the shade. Weird choices.
It's a retractable roof:
while that is cool, the end result is still pretty ugly...
I didn't read the article (my brain hurts), but I got the impression that the roof could close...that those wings(?) would slide to create a full cover
It looks okay and stands out amid the typical generic Atlanta architecture but I liked some of the other proposed designs.
It looks like a warehouse because it is FORD field. In my opinion it pays homage to the Auto industry that pretty much made Detroit. Didn't Atlanta just build the dome they have? I would think the lifetime on a billion or so dollar project should be in the several decade range not in the few year range.
is 22 years old
I was just at the Georgia Dome in May for DECA and I thought it was a nice stadium and in good shape. Not sure the reasoning for a newer one. And I went to a Braves game and thought that stadium was very nice.
Turner Field (where the Braves play) is even newer. That didn't stop them from trying to hold taxpayers hostage for a new park, and then moving to Marietta (suburb). I bet they wish they'd started a year earlier - the Falcons beat them to it.
If you're suprised to see pro sports teams wasting public funding on unneccessary new arenas, you haven't been paying attention.
The turner field fiasco is strictly the Mayor's fault. He played hard ball with them and lost. While Marietta is a 'suburb' it'd be like building a new stadium at Jefferson and Coolidge Highway. You hit a ball out of the park and it will likely bouce into the city limits. I work less than a mile from where they are building the new baseball stadium. My address is Atlanta (30339). Across the street from me is a hosiptal and it's Marietta (30067). They wanted to reviatalize the area near turner field and build a new stadium, but the mayor wouldn't agree to the costs and infrastructure changes that would be needed. Marietta said, bring it on, we'll take care of it.
Ford Field looks like a warehouse because it actually was one in its pre-NFL existence, before it was reconstructed as a stadium.
Does anyone know how this stadium is being funded?
Roughly 70/30 private (Arthur Blank)/public. Public investment comes by way of extending an existing hotel-motel tax paid by tourists (which is explicitly reserved for projects that increase tourism/economic activity in the area).
This hasn't come without some protest, of course, but the deal is pretty good* compared to the terrible new Braves stadium deal which has drawn away most of the negative attention.
*As much as public investment in a billionaire's private playground can be, which is to say not at all.
Has anyone seen the improbable models for the golden state warriors stadium on the water in San Fran?
I am tired of the gaudiness of stadiums...
and the fact that cities build a new stadium every 25 years...
lame
Even though it's only 22 years old (it even had a renovation in the last 5 or 6 years) there is a clear business case to build new. I think it all has to do with luxury boxes----the more you shove in there, the more you make versus adding some individual seats that are paid by consumers. Big business pays for the boxes and and there is a lot of fortune 1000 presence in atlanta. ....the case for the braves is a bit different, but there convinced they will make more money by putting the stadium closer to the fan base.
Atlanta is pretty segregated. People refer to the North as the rich white part and the south as the poor black part. Turner field is about as far south as you can get in the city limits on 75. While they have no problem drawing a crowd, there will be massive increase in visibility and attendance because of the new location. It's just up the road from Home Depot's world head quarters and an attainable distance from the commerce areas like Buckhead, Roswell, and Alpharetta while just sitting outside the Atlanta city limits. This is definitely a money move both for the owners and the city of Marietta. Personally I'm more pissed that my commute is going to somehow suck worse than I am that the stadium is moving north out of the city limits.
I'm not a fan of the view of the ceiling of the place from the inside, but other than that it looks pretty good. It kind of reminds me of some of the soccer stadiums you see built for the world cup with that opening although I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm just stuck in a World Cup mood.
Looks like you push a switch and it starts spinning.
Alien robot sphincter.
I do feel, however, that the #riseup blurb that seems to be on every five feet of the stadium is going to outdate itself very, very quickly.
It is likely that most places you see #RiseUp will be advertisements. The interior of the opening in the roof will be a video board that will display many different things. The large display of RISE UP behind the endzone in that one picture will very likey be advertisements.
Is this thing named #RiseUp Stadium?
This will likely be advertisement space instead of Rise Up everywhere
This looks pretty awesome...
I can't believe stadiums built in the 1990s can be considered obsolete.
was the last of the old school stadium "cookie cutter" designs. It should be torn down!
