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New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Design that may be built.

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FyreWulff

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Hot damn.

Although they should drop the feature just to see the skyline of the city. I always hate that non-functional shit.

Here, they were building the new baseball stadium for the College World Series. They wanted to face the baseball stadium towards the city skyline. DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN.

Thankfully sanity prevailed and they faced it away from the setting sun, but it always seems like a choice that hampers a design just for some shots on TV.
 
Monocle

Monocle

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It looks like a gaping anus. I'm sorry, but that's the first thing I thought of. I'm sure it would look better at ground level and in full scale.
 
shira

shira

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McNei1y said:
it looks like a nest woah
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The Bejing one is "the nest"
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Thug Waffle

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God damn, that looks incredible. The Falcons deserve a better stadium, especially now that they're a relevant competitor again.
 
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vagabondarts

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I'm an Atlanta resident and Falcons fan. I hate it.

Turner Field is a perfect fusion of implied found architecture and placemaking.

This design is an eyesore.... this is like, future pompous designer butthole instead of place making

The one really cool thing is how much light comes in from outside.

I think placemaking is important but ultimately, whatever puts butts in the seats is all that matters I guess.
 
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Dysun

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makes me sad to think they spent 1 billion on the new giants/jets stadium.
and its just this huge fucking metal stadium with 0 redeeming qualities
 
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ruxtpin

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DrFunk said:
Wasn't it gonna be somewhere in North Atlanta?

On a separate tangent, we're getting a Ferris wheel? yay.
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Screw that. I live on the Northside. If that's brought up here I'm moving! I do like the design, but I'm curious to know where it'll be located.
 
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Graphics Horse

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"A retractable roof that somehow removes a side of the stadium so that you can see the city skyline. How is this possible? Who knows?!"

The writer sounds very confused, All the pictures show the city through the transparent side of the structure, nothing removes from the sides, the retractable roof is on the... roof. It's an iris.
 
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Shig

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Some Mirror's Edge shit right there. I love it.

Architecture needs to stop skirting around these way-out sci-fi designs and settling on inoffensive 'safe' ones. We're living in the future, let's make it look that way.
 
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Talon

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DrFunk said:
Wasn't it gonna be somewhere in North Atlanta?

On a separate tangent, we're getting a Ferris wheel? yay.
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There were talks to situation it at the old GM plant near Spaghetti Junction in Doraville as a means to revitalize the area a la Atlantic Station.

Then Fulton County said, "Nope!"
 
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Kacar

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Plans derailed by having Oklahoma and Utah State in the final four. Seriously wtf @ the architects/designers do they not even watch basketball?

Very unnerving imo.
 
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RBH

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Valkyr Junkie said:
The power of public funds.
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Not really.

Atlanta's mayor and Falcons owner Arthur Blank have agreed to financing terms for a new $1 billion, retractable-roof stadium to replace the 20-year-old Georgia Dome and keep the team's home games in the city's downtown, the two men said Thursday.

Mayor Kasim Reed said the city would provide $200 million of construction costs through bonds backed by the city's hotel-motel tax. The Falcons franchise, owned by Home Depot co-founder Blank, would provide $800 million and be responsible for construction cost overruns.

The Falcons would pay for up to $50 million in infrastructure costs not included in the construction budget and help retire the last few years of debt on the Georgia Dome, which was publicly financed entirely using the hotel-motel tax.

Also, Blank's private foundation and the city each would spend $15 million on surrounding neighborhood development.
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http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9...s-agree-financing-terms-new-1-billion-stadium
 
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jwhit28

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At least they are keeping it in downtown Atlanta. The Braves are.leaving for the more affluent suburbs of Cobb County where MARTA has no presence and traffic is much worse.
 
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biggersmaller

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This looks awesome! Love the design and open-air feel. Much better than the plain-Jane $1 billion Vikings stadium I watch being built out my office window:

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BUT at-least it's resulting in some much-needed park/building development on the site of the even shittier Metrodome:

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RBH

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KingGondo said:
Beter deal than most, but $200 million is still a lot of public money.
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Relative to the total cost of the stadium (which is now at $1.4 billion as of a few days ago, with the extra money coming from the Falcons), it's not a bad deal at all in this day and age. And with it being a hotel-motel tax, it further cuts down on the amount of money coming from locals.

Now as for the financing of the Braves' new stadium.........now that's an issue that deserves a lot more attention. That whole situation has been shady from the get go.
 
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Valkyr Junkie

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RBH said:
Relative to the total cost of the stadium (which is now at $1.4 billion as of a few days ago, with the extra money coming from the Falcons), it's not a bad deal at all in this day and age. And with it being a hotel-motel tax, it further cuts down on the amount of money coming from locals.

Now as for the financing of the Braves' new stadium.........now that's an issue that deserves a lot more attention. That whole situation has been shady from the get go.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/key-stadium-vote-could-come-today/nWwwt/

The council voted 11-4 in favor of the use of city hotel-motel taxes to pay $200 million toward construction costs and potentially several times that toward costs of financing, maintaining and operating the stadium through 2050.
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Obviously hotel tax has to be spent on things that help with tourism, but that's shit a shit ton of cheddar that I'm sure the locals wouldn't mind going towards other things that benefit the locals in a wider way.
 
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Loofy

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Cant they make a stadium thats completely shaded? I hate trying to find out which seats arent in the blistering sun.
 
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jstripes

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Nice stadium.

Too bad that after corners are cut and designed are refined, the final product will look nothing like the renders.
 
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