Unique Stadiums

BoroMart said:
that's the one that looks like a load of conservatory windows, what exactly are they going to rebuild it to?
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From their CEO...
'However we shall be placing much of our infrastructure attention to rebuilding most of the Bobbers stand in order to accommodate many of the media facilities required for the Premier League to be contractually compliant to their broadcast partners, which not only is a necessity, but it’s something we should all accept as we deliver what’s required in the swiftest and best way possible, ‘should be fortunate enough to get promoted’.
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
From their CEO...
'However we shall be placing much of our infrastructure attention to rebuilding most of the Bobbers stand in order to accommodate many of the media facilities required for the Premier League to be contractually compliant to their broadcast partners, which not only is a necessity, but it’s something we should all accept as we deliver what’s required in the swiftest and best way possible, ‘should be fortunate enough to get promoted’.
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Ooof, so they'll have to dump out all their existing corporate box holders to let the press in. That'll go down well as they get offered seats with the riff raff opposite. Let's hope it doesn't happen.
 
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Stockholms stadion

Part castle, part football ground. Saw it in 2009, Djurgardens used to play there at the time but they moved 4 years later...
 
Stadion Vozdovac is a 5,000ish capacity UEFA compliant stadium atop a shopping centre (25m above street level!) in Serbia.

The Float is a floating pitch in the Marina at Singapore. The stand is on the land.

There was a weird stadium built in South Africa for 2010 World Cup that was 50-60,000 capacity that has stands at angles to the pitch. I don’t know it’s name and I didn’t get used in the World Cup.
 
El Guapo said:
Stadion Vozdovac is a 5,000ish capacity UEFA compliant stadium atop a shopping centre (25m above street level!) in Serbia.

The Float is a floating pitch in the Marina at Singapore. The stand is on the land.

There was a weird stadium built in South Africa for 2010 World Cup that was 50-60,000 capacity that has stands at angles to the pitch. I don’t know it’s name and I didn’t get used in the World Cup.
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Found it! Mmabatho Stadium.

 
Always loved Cardiff arms park albeit a rugby ground. Just so odd that the put the gargantuan national stadium right on its side. Used to love walking past it into town on a weekend when I lived down there.
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TeessideTrekker said:
Always loved Cardiff arms park albeit a rugby ground. Just so odd that the put the gargantuan national stadium right on its side. Used to love walking past it into town on a weekend when I lived down there.
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I think that section of the millennium stadium was there when it was the old Cardiff arms park. Certainly the rugby club stand built into the back of it was there then. I think that's why the seating in that section of the millennium is 2 tiers when the rest of the ground is 3.

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For those of us of a certain vintage the Simon Inglis books on stadiums and how they had developed were a joy, would be very short these days with generic stadiums!
 
Otto42 said:
For those of us of a certain vintage the Simon Inglis books on stadiums and how they had developed were a joy, would be very short these days with generic stadiums!
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The thing I took from that book was that most of the old grounds were generic originally. The great Archibald Leitch didn't vary his design much. They just diversified over time

The same will happen with the modern crop of stadia: what we see now is only the starting point.
 
True, wasn’t our barrel roof main stand at Ayresome the last surviving one when we left?
 
Otto42 said:
For those of us of a certain vintage the Simon Inglis books on stadiums and how they had developed were a joy, would be very short these days with generic stadiums!
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Is there much on archibald leitch in those books? Can still get em on amazon
 
Always thought the Sapporo dome in Japan was very cool. They grow the pitch outdoors and transport it into the dome when there’s a game on, really smart.
 

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Loads about his grounds, not so much about him as a person or architect. Personally found the Leeds and Man Utd ones interesting, both Revie and Busby were big influencers in how they developed.
 
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