As the NYT reports, Bloomberg has unveiled the second proposal for a stadium in as many weeks. The new Yankees bucket would be a replication of the original stadium that was redone in '76, complete with imitation stonework and copper details and such. Is this a confusing move considering that his other stadium was just turned down, and the WTC remains stalled?
Decide for yourself. |nytimes
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can anyone name any hok design stadium thats any good?
and hopefully obsolescence. (hope it doesn't go through)
Seriously, what is up with Bloomberg these days? I had considered him a pretty "head-on-shoulders" type of guy, but he's pulling a Tom Cruise "instant-crazy" thing with all this stadium bonanza.
What about the world trade center? Hello? Most important project currently in the world? What about that?
Camden Yards?
It depends what you mean by design. At Camden Yards, much of the design was pushed by Janet Marie Smith (an architect and employee of the Orioles), not HOK, the official architects.
HOK's lack of design innovation in stadiums is why you see team owners paring them with design architects like Eisenman and Predock.
follow the money
Glad to see Architecture has come so far in the last 82 years
i worked on bears stadium[b4 the final one by woods + zapata] at one time with hok as consultants to the bears sitting across the table. the chief guy from hok sport [who is still there] stated that we had to design the seating section to the formula that was in graphic standards for theater seating [log relationship which creates these too steep seating sections]. thats why their stadiums suck !! a stadium isnt a theater that you focus on a single point on a stage - the event is all over the field and the activity in the stands.
one only has to look at hok's white sox stadium which has the owner over the last 3 winters have been taking hok seating off - you sat there not being able to tell if the ball hit was a foul or homer because your angle to the game is so distorted.
you would think owners would learn....
this retro design is nautious --
owners don't sit where the fans sit.
at first i read that as shit.
(...and actually i guess the same proverb aplies in that case too)
us cellular field [white sox] opened in '90 at the cost of $167 mil with seating capacity of 44,321.
from '97-04 the white sox have sunk $118 mil in trying to fix it and reduced the seating to 40,615. hok was not asked to particpate in the renovations.
owners may focus on the skyboxes and personal seat license but bad architecture does effect the bottom line.
still got a hot shit group of b-ball players though.
go hok!! screw up another! spend as much of yankee $$ as possible! they dont need another penant.
and they didn-t ask for corporate welfare to pay for that?
can't we get somebody on task to stop naming stadiums such dumb names? US Cellular Field, please. Comiskey sounds so much better.
Yeah HOK did Great American in Cincinnati and while I like it as a baseball fan, I think it sucks as a piece of architecture.
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