Wellington to build temporary stadium

It's official

Even that photo of the Nix's new stadium has the stand 20+ metres from the touch.

Renders of the latest proposal for Townsville Stadium can be found here:-

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1432756&page=5

Renders of the latest proposal for Townsville Stadium can be found here:-

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1432756&page=5

It's lost me.... toooooo open and will deter from atmospheres of games with small attendances.

Will be good for the cowboys and the odd rep game, will send anyone else broke. Fury should build their own ground over time.

Oval stadiums, 2/3 sided stadiums, stadiums with a grass hill, stadiums without roofs on stands, multi purposes stadiums where the football viewing is compromised.

Is there not a Football stadium, which is just that a football stadium without compromise, like the ones springing up in USA (albeit they too have a strange addiction to 3 sided stadiums too) which is surely what we should aspire too getting built.

Edensor Park, Knights stadium and Lakeside Stadium are the stadiums that half the league would love to play out of. Small, atmospheric, close to the action (bar lakeside) and cheap to rent.

Not sure fantasy upgrades belong in the thread, tbh

well in all fairness the stadium and grandstand exist

Needs more red. Is there a way you can bleach and colour the grass?


Edited by scott21: 26/9/2014 11:36:54 PM

Facelift for a famous arena: $29 million revamp for Parramatta Stadium
EXCLUSIVE JOHN LEHMANN EDITOR-AT-LARGE THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 12:00AM

THE battle over a $29 million upgrade to Parramatta’s Pirtek Stadium has been settled, with work to begin within weeks building an extra 4000 seats at the ends of the ground for Western Sydney Wanderers and Eels fans.

Sport minister Stuart Ayres has negotiated the outcome with the A-League’s Wanderers and the NRL’s Eels, who had been pushing for $120 million to be spent converting the 30-year-old ground into a 32,000-seat venue.

The final design will take the stadium’s capacity to around 24,700, with an additional 2000 seats to be installed behind the existing terraces at both the northern and southern ends.

To improve spectators’ “game-day” experience, all seats will be replaced throughout the stadium, Wi-Fi smartphone technology rolled out and a bigger live-action video screen and LED signage installed.

The players’ outdated change rooms will be brought up to international standards and the turfed surface replaced.

Mr Ayres said work would begin by mid-October and was expected to be completed by next September. The stadium will remain operational during the works.

The upgrade represents a facelift rather than a major overhaul and means the debate will continue over whether Parramatta should be expanded further or a new stadium built elsewhere in Western Sydney.

Western Sydney Wanderers chief executive John Tsatsimas described the improvements as a “positive first step” and said the club hoped the venue would continue to “grow with us” to create a long-term home.

The club has had to cap ticketed memberships at 15,500 due to the ground’s limited capacity and already has 2000 fans on a waiting list for season tickets. All but one of its 13 games were sold out last season.

Mr Ayres wants to focus on proposed upgrades to Sydney’s biggest venue, Sydney Olympic Park’s ANZ Stadium, and Moore Park’s 44,000-seat Allianz Stadium.

The Parramatta upgrade is being funded through a $20 million commitment from Prime Minister Tony Abbott before the last election and $6 million in state funding and $3 million from Parramatta City Council.

The local federal MP Craig Laundy said the new works would ensure the Eels and the Wanderers had “the best possible platform to excel into the future”.

Good news and probably enough for us in the short term to grow a bit, hopefully the away fans can be moved to behind the goals on the south end.

Can anyone told me if the Safe Standing experiment is going to see it approved for the whole end?

I don't like how the minister phrased that. Looks like there's little willingness to upgrade the stadium from the state government side. They want to spend the dosh on ANZ and the SFS.

so the development will begin as soon as the a-league season starts and will conclude when the nrl season starts.