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There you go, live porn!
An he was never heard from again...
There you go, live porn!
There you go, live porn!
In a word, yes! Under much of the cladding is glass, rather than being some concrete walled monolith. It is an approach which allows for increased light and visibility inside whilst maintaining privacy and appearance from the outside. It also helps to ensure the stadium is visually appropriate for its environment.I'm a bit confused about the exterior for the stadium. I see that they have started to put up the glass paneling in some areas - but from the design pictures it seems that there is some sort of perforated steel as the external cladding. Does this go over the glass?
Also, I remember a while back that Haringey released proposals for the regeneration of the high road, including creating a stadium approach (link below)
https://tottenham.london/sites/default/files/12._the_high_road_and_west_hart_lane_pdf_506kb.pdf
I can't see any update whether this was ever taken forward. Has anyone heard / ready anything to suggest it is?
Obviously one is a photo and the other a visual but it's interesting to see the comparison of the distance from the pitch of these two north london grounds...
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Couldn't fit the West Ham one in the same scale as the stands were nowhere to be seen.
As well as proximity to the pitch, what's really exciting about how much better ours is than the Death Star, is the upper tier. I've mentioned this before but you can really see it here -- our upper tier is really steep, so fans sitting up there will feel connected and invested in the action, whereas in many modern stadiums (like Wembley), you might as well not actually be there. The steepness (stepth should be a word) of ours is even more apparent in real life.
Sorry lads, went on the cam and drowned myself in great images.An he was never heard from again...
There are good engineering reasons for not doing that. It's no coincidence that the pitch of each tier at football stadiums is generally quite similar. You need to balance out the height, the footprint/size and the sightlines, ultimately that leads to designers/architects drawing similar conclusions.In slight fairness to those bastards that photo is a fish eye photo of their place and distorts the view somewhat. From what I have seen I believe the steepness of the stands are in fact quite similar, just ours are closer to the action.
There are good engineering reasons for not doing that. It's no coincidence that the pitch of each tier at football stadiums is generally quite similar. You need to balance out the height, the footprint/size and the sightlines, ultimately that leads to designers/architects drawing similar conclusions.
What I find interesting is that The Emirates is rounder and more bowl shaped. They argue that the corners are the least preferable place to sit so they were happy to compromise by having fewer seats in the corners than the sides and ends, giving that sort of wavey effect. I'm interested to know whether that also effects atmosphere by having areas of dead space and open areas for noise to escape which we won't have.
I mean I know it's does that, but to a lesser extent and we don't have gaps in the sides!
I mean the corners really, when you look at each, you can see the stands drop down a lot at each corner, which is because the pitch of the stands is the same, but the oval shape of the stadium causes the corners to be cut off. That leaves a gap in the seating. We have a similar effect, but our oval is a different shape, it's not a true oval. This means we have more seating in the corners of the stadium as the actual distribution is different. By extension we have noise coming from those corners and perhaps, more importantly, behind the top tier at The Emirates, there is a glass wall, but it doesn't reach up to the roof, with that effect particularly noticeable in the corners. This means that noise generated in the stadium can escape there rather than being reflected back in.What do you mean by we don't have gaps in the sides?
It probably looks even more ropey with a running track half covered by some stands, highlights even more the temporary nature of a large part of their stadium.love the way they have made the running track/perimeter green to match the pitch, thinking that would camouflage the the fact that the stands are half a km from the pitch