Chinese club begins constructing world's biggest soccer stadium for $1.7 billion
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At first I thought . . . meh. It's a lotus. It's a football stadium. Feels too Calatrava for my taste. But then I pressed play . . .
Holy cow! Enos Stanley Kroenke eat your heart out! That is how you spell splash and dash. Your little football palace will never be the coolest. Not even for one flat minute.
Holy cow! Enos Stanley Kroenke eat your heart out! That is how you spell splash and dash. Your little football palace will never be the coolest. Not even for one flat minute.
A link straight to the video so you don't accidentally click on some other video on CNN's website like I did and so you don't give CNN Ad revenue for ESPN's content.chris fuller wrote: ↑Apr 20, 2020Chinese club begins constructing world's biggest soccer stadium for $1.7 billion
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You're such a heroaprice wrote: ↑Apr 22, 2020A link straight to the video so you don't accidentally click on some other video on CNN's website like I did and so you don't give CNN Ad revenue for ESPN's content.chris fuller wrote: ↑Apr 20, 2020Chinese club begins constructing world's biggest soccer stadium for $1.7 billion
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Meh. Not impressed.aprice wrote: ↑Apr 22, 2020A link straight to the video so you don't accidentally click on some other video on CNN's website like I did and so you don't give CNN Ad revenue for ESPN's content.chris fuller wrote: ↑Apr 20, 2020Chinese club begins constructing world's biggest soccer stadium for $1.7 billion
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Now, if the roof petals would close in the cold and rain and open up wide on nice sunny days to expose the field, automatically, now that would be impressive...
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And then a giant bee...urbanitas wrote: ↑Apr 23, 2020Meh. Not impressed.aprice wrote: ↑Apr 22, 2020A link straight to the video so you don't accidentally click on some other video on CNN's website like I did and so you don't give CNN Ad revenue for ESPN's content.chris fuller wrote: ↑Apr 20, 2020Chinese club begins constructing world's biggest soccer stadium for $1.7 billion
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Now, if the roof petals would close in the cold and rain and open up wide on nice sunny days to expose the field, automatically, now that would be impressive...
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^Hey, that giant bottlecap was awesome! Busch II is still a cherished memory and was, I would say, easily the finest stadium of her era.
^ Yep, as far as cookie cutters go, Busch II looked the best. If it wasn’t for that crown of Arches it would be a totally different story lol.
We can thank internationally acclaimed architect Edward Durell Stone for those arches (and the other, more subtle sculptural concrete features). Also, since the field was set below street level, the stadium had a very elegant, slow profile.
RIP Busch II
RIP Busch II
Ain't that the same city that still forbids blacks from entering many restaurants like it's still the 1950s and the US government advises minorities against visiting there? Yea, nothing they do will impress megary kreie wrote: ↑Apr 23, 2020And then a giant bee...urbanitas wrote: ↑Apr 23, 2020Meh. Not impressed.aprice wrote: ↑Apr 22, 2020A link straight to the video so you don't accidentally click on some other video on CNN's website like I did and so you don't give CNN Ad revenue for ESPN's content.
Now, if the roof petals would close in the cold and rain and open up wide on nice sunny days to expose the field, automatically, now that would be impressive...
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I don't think it's the city, so much as individual business owners being jackasses because of a heady mix of racism, fear, and plague. Kind of like restaurant employees in New York tried to kick Chinese folks out before things got so bad the government officially kicked everyone out.stl07 wrote: ↑Apr 24, 2020Ain't that the same city that still forbids blacks from entering many restaurants like it's still the 1950s and the US government advises minorities against visiting there? Yea, nothing they do will impress me
It's entirely wrong, but it's also not official New York policy. Just the inevitable consequence of Donald J. and Fox News blaming China. Even here, where things aren't as bad, my wife has gotten a fair bit of side eye. (And she's not even Chinese, but hey, even Chinese folks don't always seem to get that one right.)
And in East Asia in general and China in particular government has seized on American racism to push precisely the inverse of the Donnie talking points: watch out for the scary foreigners, and especially Americans. We're making the disease worse and trying to hurt China. Apparently folks were genuinely hesitant to hang out with my wife's uncle in Cai Lay Vietnam after we left for similar reasons: He was hanging out with a bunch of scary white folks who could spread plague. (Which is to say me and a couple of our friends.) You just don't want to visit folks like that. (Though for the first time I did actually see a white guy that wasn't a member of my own party. Might be an actual case of community spread.)
Trust me when I say racism is not okay. It's not. It's absolutely not. There's a lot of people as know this better than me, but man, I know it.
And we bear as much responsibility in this mess as they do. (Meaning American white people. If you don't match that description I hold you to be innocent in this specific mess.) Not that I know how to fix it. Beyond, of course, sitting down and breaking bread with folks diverse from ourselves. Which, by the way, is always a really rewarding idea. Mix it up, everybody. Try it. Looking back on the last thirty years or so I think this has been the single most rewarding part of my life.
But we were talking soccer. So breaking bones with folks culturally distinct from yourself. Well . . . if you're going to have nationalistic combat, I suppose football is a better way to decide events than most other nation v. nation contests I can think of.
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A think a few of the cookie-cutters from that era were built with the fields below street level. I know Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was...framer wrote: ↑Apr 24, 2020We can thank internationally acclaimed architect Edward Durell Stone for those arches (and the other, more subtle sculptural concrete features). Also, since the field was set below street level, the stadium had a very elegant, slow profile.
RIP Busch II
Fully agree that Busch was the best of that bunch, but only because of the arches. Take that away, and it looks no different than the contemporary stadiums in Atlanta or Cincinnati.
Oh, those arches...
That’s why I love this photo of John Lennon.
There’s thousands of concert photos of the Beatles but few that visually and architecturally pin it to a specific venue.
That’s why I love this photo of John Lennon.
There’s thousands of concert photos of the Beatles but few that visually and architecturally pin it to a specific venue.
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^And that, I believe, is quite specifically why they quit touring. Great shot. Miserable show. (Utterly drenched in a half empty stadium with lousy sound, as I hear tell.) Anyway, yes, I miss Busch II. You really couldn't beat it.
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Last building on the corner of Olive and 20th is no more.
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Looking at that image and I can't help but think that the Pear Tree Inn is in line to make a killing. Wish they'd upgrade and modernize that hotel.
Fairfield and Union Station won't do too shabby either. Those 3 hotels will get a boost. I agree that Pear Tree Inn should be renovated/modernized some, maybe even replace it with a new structure.chaifetz10 wrote: ↑May 12, 2020Looking at that image and I can't help but think that the Pear Tree Inn is in line to make a killing. Wish they'd upgrade and modernize that hotel.
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Likely just a matter of time there. If COVID-19 wasn't tearing ass around the world right now, I'd think we'd have a major announcement on that Pear Tree Inn's future before the end of the year. Let's see what happens in this new normal...chriss752 wrote: ↑May 12, 2020Fairfield and Union Station won't do too shabby either. Those 3 hotels will get a boost. I agree that Pear Tree Inn should be renovated/modernized some, maybe even replace it with a new structure.chaifetz10 wrote: ↑May 12, 2020Looking at that image and I can't help but think that the Pear Tree Inn is in line to make a killing. Wish they'd upgrade and modernize that hotel.
Taking it back to its MCM roots would be nice.chaifetz10 wrote: ↑May 12, 2020Looking at that image and I can't help but think that the Pear Tree Inn is in line to make a killing. Wish they'd upgrade and modernize that hotel.
Drury owns it, so I wouldn't expect too much.gone corporate wrote: ↑May 12, 2020Likely just a matter of time there. If COVID-19 wasn't tearing ass around the world right now, I'd think we'd have a major announcement on that Pear Tree Inn's future before the end of the year. Let's see what happens in this new normal...chriss752 wrote: ↑May 12, 2020Fairfield and Union Station won't do too shabby either. Those 3 hotels will get a boost. I agree that Pear Tree Inn should be renovated/modernized some, maybe even replace it with a new structure.chaifetz10 wrote: ↑May 12, 2020Looking at that image and I can't help but think that the Pear Tree Inn is in line to make a killing. Wish they'd upgrade and modernize that hotel.
The lobby was actually redone recently, and looks great, very modern and well-lit. But the exterior needs a lot of work, the parking lot in front needs to go away, and the awful parking garage needs to be replaced - hopefully with more hotel rooms or a conference center on top of a well-camoflauged garage...
