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June 26th, 2014 at 10:41 AM
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OT: Renderings of new Atlanta Falcons stadium released

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 10:47 AM
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Is this going in place of the Georgia Dome?

The Chick-Fila Dome aka The Cootie Catcher

 

Smiley face

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June 26th, 2014 at 4:53 PM
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No, next to where it is.  The

No, next to where it is.  The dome will then be leveled and made into a parking garage.  

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June 26th, 2014 at 10:48 AM
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Don - you are just too out of

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 

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:05 AM
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you are just too out of touch with what's hip these days

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 10:56 AM
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Found this, pretty funny.

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:22 AM
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Looks like the horseshoe

Looks like the horseshoe

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June 26th, 2014 at 10:57 AM
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Meh...

... 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:

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:58 AM
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I think ford field looks great

From close up. But I can see it from my bedroom window and the roof/back looks pretty blech.

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June 26th, 2014 at 12:29 PM
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Plopping an ultramodern Frank

Plopping an ultramodern Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe in Detroit's old-style art-deco, somewhat industrial downtown would've been a horrible idea.

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:21 AM
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$1.2 billion

buys a lot of ugly

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:22 AM
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Not Too Bad, I Thought...

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. 

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:24 AM
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Rainy days

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 2:37 PM
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It's a retractable roof:    

It's a retractable roof:

 

 

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June 26th, 2014 at 8:56 PM
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while that is cool, the end

while that is cool, the end result is still pretty ugly...

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:29 AM
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Open air

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

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:30 AM
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Meh

It looks okay and stands out amid the typical generic Atlanta architecture but I liked some of the other proposed designs.

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:32 AM
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I like Ford Field

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:43 AM
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Georgia Dome

is 22 years old

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June 27th, 2014 at 1:00 AM
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I was just at the Georgia

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 3:35 PM
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Turner Field (where the

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 5:03 PM
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The turner field fiasco is

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.  

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June 26th, 2014 at 4:03 PM
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Ford Field looks like a

Ford Field looks like a warehouse because it actually was one in its pre-NFL existence, before it was reconstructed as a stadium.

 

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June 26th, 2014 at 11:41 AM
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Does anyone know how this

Does anyone know how this stadium is being funded?

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June 26th, 2014 at 4:25 PM
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Roughly 70/30 private (Arthur

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 12:00 PM
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I honestly like it a lot

Has anyone seen the improbable models for the golden state warriors stadium on the water in San Fran?

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June 26th, 2014 at 1:06 PM
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my take...

I am tired of the gaudiness of stadiums...

and the fact that cities build a new stadium every 25 years...

lame

 

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June 26th, 2014 at 4:23 PM
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As usual it's all about the $$$

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 5:09 PM
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Atlanta is pretty segregated.

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.    

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June 26th, 2014 at 2:26 PM
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Looks pretty good

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 2:36 PM
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Looks like you push a switch

Looks like you push a switch and it starts spinning. 

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June 26th, 2014 at 3:00 PM
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Alien robot sphincter?

Alien robot sphincter.

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June 26th, 2014 at 3:03 PM
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I like the design itself

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.

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June 26th, 2014 at 3:56 PM
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It is likely that most places

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. 

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June 26th, 2014 at 6:22 PM
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Yeah

Is this thing named #RiseUp Stadium?

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June 26th, 2014 at 3:58 PM
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This will likely be

This will likely be advertisement space instead of Rise Up everywhere

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June 26th, 2014 at 3:59 PM
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This looks pretty awesome...

This looks pretty awesome...

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June 26th, 2014 at 4:03 PM
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I can't believe stadiums

I can't believe stadiums built in the 1990s can be considered obsolete.

 

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June 26th, 2014 at 8:37 PM
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White Sox - their stadium

was the last of the old school stadium "cookie cutter" designs. It should be torn down!

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