St James' Park

[OpenC]

20 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said:

Think I might be swayed by the idea of the club buying up Leazes Terrace and Saint James Street and expanding the stadium. 

 

Not sure if this was already a thing but if that's based on my earlier post then full disclosure I was just making it up and I've got no idea if they'd be allowed to make Leazes Terrace into an ultra classy conference centre hotel and bars venue  

 

Might solve the problem like

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by OpenC

[Turnbull2000]

29 minutes ago, MagCA said:

Not sure who this fella is, or what I'm looking at, but some red lines and blue lines. An interesting yellow line too.

 

Looks to me like...

 

Red = Key boundary lines. Stadium and two streets of terraces.

Blue = Traffic route

Yellow = Metro line and potential extension

 

[Stifler]

6 hours ago, 80 said:

It's going to occupy a whacking part of the city and form an important part of its international identity. Why wouldn't you want to ensure it looks the part? If after a while it's made out of fraying, discoloured lumps of plastic we'll regret it.

I very much doubt we’d have a bubble effect of cladding, the only bubble effect I think we could go for, is something like the Sage.

The stadium like it or not is going to have things like restaurants and bars within it that are open on non match-days. This is going to require the stadium to have some sort of street level and possibly upper levels of openness/frontage. Blank wall/cladding isn’t going to work, and we’ll need this street level interaction for the day to day amenities to function. Let’s assume that we are locating it in Castle Leazes, or Leazes Park, are you really going to blank out a view to those parks from inside the stadium? Are you really going to cut off the building from the outside? If you are just strolling through the park and see a building with no activity, you’ll just ignore it. Open it up, some walls of glass with people drinking and having meals etc inside it, and you are tempted to go in.

Even if we have the stadium on the arena site, the same rules apply for the riverside.