Originally posted by joesfumanchu:Originally posted by Marvin49:Originally posted by joesfumanchu:Originally posted by RogerCraig:
Well, since I doubt I will be going to any games, at least in the near future, I really don't care what it looks like, as longs most fans like it and the players can perform.
Looks like crap, if you really want to know my opinion.
Yeah, it's hard for me to believe this is the best they could come up with. Not a lot of imagination went into that...thing. But hey it's new!
THIS is a stadium!
THAT is a stadium built in a place where it rains 70% of the time. Thats why it covers a large number of the seats, but can still call itself an "open air" stadium.
Additionally the Seahawks are owned by one of the richest men in the world...Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.
I'm not asking for our stadium to be built exactly like this. I'm asking for the same kind of imagination to be put into it. Like I've said before, it looks like they designed our stadium using Madden.
Additionally, Qwest Field cost around half ($430M) what ours will. It's not about throwing money at it like you're insinuating Paul Allen did. It's about building something beautiful. That thing they want to put in Santa Clara is crap.
Your looking at a 3D render that wasn't intended to pursuade the public to like the design. It looks totally vanilla because we were never intended to make a judgement based on it.
If you read the info about the stadium you would see that it is intentionally built with an open architecture so that you can see almost everything from almost anywhere (including from the main concourse and the WIDE corridors...not just the seats). Look at that ground level pic again and you will see that you can see all of the people waling around monstrous corridors along the outside of the stadium. On the ground level near the street is also the future site of a 49ers store. That thing is about 5 min from where I currently sit and you KNOW I'll be over there...ALOT. ;-)
When we see some really well rendered versions of this stadium liek the one in this thread from ground level, I really think people will change their tune.
As for the cost of that stadium, that was several years ago and I'd like to see where you get your numbers.
By way of comparison, the new Cowboy stadium is 1.5 BILLION.
[ Edited by Marvin49 on Jun 1, 2009 at 16:18:49 ]