However, check out the stadium renderings accompanying this story. Look at how big that thing is. The size almost makes the Museum Campus buildings look like neo-classical LEGO blocks in comparison.
Judging from the renderings, the stadium looks pretty good as far as professional sports facilities go. It’s the right building but the wrong spot.
— Chicago Sun-Times
Bey’s effective teardown includes a slideshow of Manica Architecture’s new renderings for the reported $2 billion stadium, which replaces a scrapped plan to relocate the team to suburban Arlington Heights from its hallowed Soldier Field home.
Bey said Mayor Brandon Johnson's team "stood by as a private entity took the lead and told how the public’s lakefront would be redeveloped." The stadium is expected to be built on a three-year timeline, with the completed design made ready in time to kick off the 2028 season.
The White Sox are also mulling an upgrade closer to the South Loop that could cost upwards of $9 billion.
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There's a huge parcel of undeveloped land like 1/2 mile from this and they plop the turd on the lakefront. Chicago do better.
Not a great design IMO. It looks like a copy + paste of the past five other indoor football stadiums. The site is spectacular and needs to be better. As a Packer fan, the team that owns the Bears, I disapprove with this iteration.
I'm LOLing every time I see the enormous STADIUM on these renderings. Like we couldn't tell what it is ?!?
Also, is it really going to have the same faux-wood cladding of every five-over-one right now?
Judging by the scale, I think those are full sheets of plywood ;-)
Ridiculously out of scale and not a site specific design response. Seems like this stadium design was developed with the idea that it could also be plopped onto the property the Bears own in Arlington Heights, and for which a master plan has been developed. Or, perhaps it was the design already developed for Arlington Heights and now wedged along the lakefront?
What you're describing is literally what happened for the pro football team in my city. Land was selected, drawings started, and then the university offered a different piece of land at no cost. There's been lawsuits over the construction ever since.
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