It needs to look like a half a basketball. Or else.
Or else I won't care.
Actually, I don't care either way.
In all honesty, I hope you basketball people get what you want. Best of luck.
I was wondering how they'd fit a stadium down there, looks like they do it by removing a block of Occidental Ave S. Not that anyone is likely to miss that stretch of road, but can you do that? Just... remove a road?
It's growing on me, the pics posted here are the least flattering of the renderings but if you imagine it all brick, black steel with wood highlights its looks pretty good, a little generic maybe, so it would fit in well with the other Seattle buildings.
If you look at the full PDF, there are three options, of which this is the preferred alternative. While I think it's better than the first option, which is a horrendous oval excuse for windows to look outside of the arena from inside, I actually like the second design the best. It has a lower profile so that it doesn't loom over its surroundings quite as much, and it has a kind of wavy roof design that seems to match well with the distant waterfront scenery. But the people who picked the third option didn't like the second one because it's not "iconic" enough. But frankly, I think you just want a box to have sports in, that interacts with the street as nicely as such a monumental thing can. And hopefully doesn't look like an ugly tug boat.
I prefer the oval scheme out of the three offered. The one pictured is okay, but the rectangle one is hideous.
Also I wish they would build a pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks at Massachusetts ave to make it easier to get to/from 4th ave. Hopefully this plan also makes Holgate Street go over the tracks? (Lander too please!!)
The important thing is that millionaires like Chris Hansen and Mitt Romney and the rest of the team owning set like it. It's their toy. Everyone, let them speak.
Design issues aside - it's shocking how unprofessional these images are. This looks like a undergraduate design studio spent 3 days locked in a studio with Google Sketchup. It certainly doesn't look like something that a professional design and architecture group would release.
The circular design could have been so much more futuristic. Maybe make it similar to the San Francisco proposal that #30 linked to. I'm a little tired of looking at square, rectangle, and otherwise boxy buildings.
hey roads are crumbling, we have no subway, class sizes are growing, the cops need more supervisors...I know! le'ts use public money for pro sports, woo hoo!
socialism for the one percenter owners and the one percenter players and the top 30% who will attend the games, my god, isn't america great especially faux progressive cities like seattle.
because we will have recycling and bike lanes at our publicly funded glass pro sports palace number FIVE.
Having studied the whole design package, the only thing I like about this design is the entry way on the north. At ground level, the rest of it seems big, cold, and stand-offish.
I think #1 looks cool, especially the all-glass exterior. #2 also looks good, and is more functional. I just don't see much aesthetic appeal in #3, the "preferred" alternative.
Love the Jetpack Flight Deck on top, though.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Or else I won't care.
Actually, I don't care either way.
In all honesty, I hope you basketball people get what you want. Best of luck.
But hey, are those solar panels on the roof?
It's hideous.
Still, I suppose it is better than a urine-colored half sphere.
Sigh.
Also I wish they would build a pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks at Massachusetts ave to make it easier to get to/from 4th ave. Hopefully this plan also makes Holgate Street go over the tracks? (Lander too please!!)
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socialism for the one percenter owners and the one percenter players and the top 30% who will attend the games, my god, isn't america great especially faux progressive cities like seattle.
because we will have recycling and bike lanes at our publicly funded glass pro sports palace number FIVE.
I think #1 looks cool, especially the all-glass exterior. #2 also looks good, and is more functional. I just don't see much aesthetic appeal in #3, the "preferred" alternative.