St James' Park

[Choppy Chop Chop]

13 hours ago, Vedder said:

Not to be patronising, but isn’t it about 100 yards further up the road? Or am I missing something?

The top of Leazes park is separated from Castle Leazes by a path 

[Groundhog63]

6 minutes ago, El Prontonise said:

 

This while looking architecturaly, quite similar is at least different and sustainable.

 

That looks class but everyone would have to wear wellies, esp in the winter, and the farmer would do his nut at people trampling all over his crops.

[Hank Marvin]

28 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I gave up yonks ago on the aesthetics of football stadiums.  The truth is that they’re all fucking ugly structures - it’s all steel, glass and concrete.  I’m yet to see a structure made from those materials that I’d consider beautiful (and I don’t mean impressive - I’ve seen plenty of those).

 

Newcastle’s centre is one of Georgian sandstone architecture - a hulking great football ground sat next to it is an eyesore (and the Caulkins of the world can fuck off with their ‘cathedral on the hill’ pish.  The city has two of those already - and if anyone wants to see what a truly beautiful cathedral looks like, they can hop on a train from central to Durham in ten mins).

 

SJP is ugly even with that said - it is brutalist in its architecture, and straightforwardly built to get as many arses on seats as possible in that footprint.  The SJP I knew as a kid (which looks nowt like the current one) was also an ugly, dilapidated wreck.  Yes, it was host our memories - but memories don’t go when a building is pulled down. 

 

Monaco have a beautiful stadium.

 

[TheBrownBottle]

36 minutes ago, Hank Marvin said:

 

Monaco have a beautiful stadium.

 

Nearly thirty years since I was there - it was an odd little ground, but it’s definitely not the worst looking one

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I like the design of a lot of modern stadia, just don't have any emotional attachment to them. It's not that the designs are all bad. 

[Elma]

1 hour ago, El Prontonise said:

 

Bamboo? 

 

At least that way we could easily add 5,000 capacity year on year by barely lifting a finger.

[Ben]

That's all we need, loads of Pandas coming over hear eating our stadium 

[NEEJ]

Knowing our luck it'd be invasive bamboo and would take over the city. 

[Colos Short and Curlies]

2 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I like the design of a lot of modern stadia, just don't have any emotional attachment to them. It's not that the designs are all bad. 

 

We'd all quickly grow an attachment to a new arena/stadium after a season of champions league nights.