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If You Don't Build It...

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 02 2011 03:26 PM

... then it will eventually become fodder for a cool-beans slideshow of great unbuilt stadiumsby Slate. The West Side Stadium and O'Malley's doomed Buckminster Fuller dome are included right up front (along with a cool floating Seattle stadium-that-wasn't and an oddly-compelling Tampa pirate thingy).

Edgy DC Mar 02 2011 07:02 PM Re: If You Don't Build It...

Yowza, Edmonton.

MFS62 Mar 02 2011 09:31 PM Re: If You Don't Build It...

Edgy DC wrote: Yowza, Edmonton. The team that plays there (in the CFL) is the Edmonton Eskimos. I want it to look like an igloo. Later

Willets Point Mar 02 2011 10:13 PM Re: If You Don't Build It...

I was disappointed that the plan for Edmonton didn't mean that football could be played on the suspended field simultaneously with the hockey game going on below.

The Second Spitter Mar 02 2011 10:23 PM Re: If You Don't Build It...

Not as disappointing as this not happening -- the head-on view of the stadium @2:00, amazing. [youtube:3f6cdtsd]a1q1CObr0Y8[/youtube:3f6cdtsd]

metsguyinmichigan Mar 03 2011 04:32 AM Re: If You Don't Build It...

I'm a little surprised they didn't include the Mets plan with the roll-out field. Thank goodness that didn't happen!

The Second Spitter Mar 03 2011 04:45 AM Re: If You Don't Build It... Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 03 2011 04:52 AM

Labatt Park (aka The House Bud Didn't Want Built)

The Second Spitter Mar 03 2011 04:52 AM Re: If You Don't Build It...

metsguyinmichigan wrote: I'm a little surprised they didn't include the Mets plan with the roll-out field. Thank goodness that didn't happen! Ah, yes Ebbets Dome 2 -- it's a pity because that would have bankrupted the Wilpons for sure. Shitty looking scoreboard and the outfield looks even bigger than Citi (assuming scale). The bullpen at deep centre left may be over 400ft.

Edgy DC Mar 03 2011 05:10 AM Re: If You Don't Build It...

Looks like a lot of elements lived on from that. It's amazing that the White Sox live with the last stadium built before the Camden Yards revolution, knowing that they rejected a park that was a blueprint for Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

The Second Spitter Mar 03 2011 05:32 AM Re: If You Don't Build It...

Edgy DC wrote: Looks like a lot of elements lived on from that. It's amazing that the White Sox live with the last stadium built before the Camden Yards revolution, knowing that they rejected a park that was a blueprint for Oriole Park at Camden Yards. I remember reading that Ebbets Dome 2 was also used as the basis for Miller Park, although the latter has a distinctively different roof. Retro ballparks are the cookie-cutters of the 21st Century. Speaking of Camden Yards, this is the design they didn't go with;

The Second Spitter Mar 03 2011 05:52 AM Re: If You Don't Build It...

MFY Dome MFY Stadium in the City (circa 1993)

metirish Mar 03 2011 06:51 AM Re: If You Don't Build It...

The National Stadium , forever known as the Bertie Bowl in Ireland Bertie Ahern has said recently quite unbelievably that not getting this built during his time as Taoiseach of Ireland was his biggest regret , yes he said that, not the economy or all the people that left, no , a fucking ugly stadium.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 03 2011 06:53 AM Re: If You Don't Build It...

Those exit ramps somehow remind me of these toys: