Comments on: Stadium Spotlight: Design Proposal — Dalian Shide, the Organic Stadium

By: Pokerstars

Pokerstars — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:38:30 +0000

This design, while absolutely amazing, looks more like a concept to learn from rather than something that should be executed. There are a variety of risky design concepts which could cost unknown millions to fix. In any new design element, especially one of this size, the number of risks should be kept to a minimum. Several potential problems that make me think of the Bradley IFV and Denver International Airport times 10. While elements of the design could and probably should be used elsewhere, they should used in more conservative pieces rather than all in one structure.

Cool lookin’ though!

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:12:30 +0000

Thanks for the info M.
It seems odd that they’d build a new stadium that is only a 30% capacity increase over the stadium built in 1997, but as the article said, “such is the pace of change…”. I remember Tom Friedman in one of his books (I believe it was “The World is Flat”) describing Dalian as a city that is just exploding on a yearly basis, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised!

By: M

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:17:41 +0000

Brad, I’m not Tom (Tom, hope you’re not mad?), but from what I know the competition capacity set for designers was 40 thousand. There’s a whole ring of stands around the pitch in the first yier, but the second tier is only behind the touchlines, with the ends open.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:25:35 +0000

Tom:
Do you have a rough idea how many people would fit in the NBBJ-designed stadium? I’m trying to get a sense of just how massive each of these two walls would need to be…
In some of the renderings, it appears there’s only (or at least the vast majority) seating on the touch lines, but in others it looks to be a bowl with seating around the entire field.

By the way, this is a fantastic site — I just came across it this week and I’m hooked. The writing is of such a superior quality to anything I’ve seen on a football site before.

Thanks,
Brad

By: Sandeep Goyal

Sandeep Goyal — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:23:40 +0000

Gr8!! idea and a great blog. I appreciate your work & hope for some more informative information.

By: M

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:53:58 +0000

Well, I also got confused having read news about the NBBJ design on several websites. Especially that it’s such a shocking design that everybody focused on it.As for the link – works here…

By: Tom Dunmore

Tom Dunmore — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:27:41 +0000

M — thanks. I had actually read what now turns out to have been a misleading piece that NBBJ had won, but you are right, they did just announce UN Studio had won (don’t think your link works though). I will have to correct the piece substantially, a crazy lost opportunity!

By: M

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:49:47 +0000

@Tom – unfortunatelly it seems another design was chosen… The UNstudio architects of Amsterdam announced their design will be the one constructed. You may see it here: http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=12476

As much as the new one is very nice and would be quite impressive to see, the one you presented deserves a special mention for the sole ideas. I’m not sure if they are genius or just bizarre, but surely a breath of fresh air…

@Elliott – you just made my day

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By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:00:59 +0000

But where are the corporate suites for CEOs of businesses that plunder the earth? Or do we have to sit amongst the common folk? Bah