North Stand Construction Discussion

Chris Holmes said:
Anyone know how stadium entry is going to work if you are staying at the Hotel?
On most floors there's a direct link to the stadium.

If you are at the hotel and have a ticket for that area (I wonder if they will be selling specific tourist packages for those floors - which would make it easier for them) presumably there will be a ticket barrier to and from the stadium on the stadium side of the particular floor walkways between the hotel and stadium.

Room pricing will be interesting. It will be ridiculous for Champions League and some other games. There's plenty of choice of hotels in town, though like most big cities, they suffer from dynamic pricing.
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They'll have doormen.

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Keeper! said:
How on earth do they get access to bolt those together?
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Two cherry pickers on the roof, and they have also built a scaffold off the platform on the temporary support.

Don't envy the poor guys doing that job up there!

But really think both SiSk and the club are missing an incredible PR opportunity if they don't document and promote the topping out with these pieces.
 
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Coatigan said:
Two cherry pickers on the roof, and they have also built a scaffold off the platform on the temporary support.

Don't envy the poor guys doing that job up there!

But really think both SiSk and the club are missing an incredible PR opportunity if they don't document and promote the topping out with these pieces.
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Don't worry mate, we're on it.

I'll nip down this week and hopefully get the money shot?
 
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Coatigan said:
Two cherry pickers on the roof, and they have also built a scaffold off the platform on the temporary support.

Don't envy the poor guys doing that job up there!

But really think both SiSk and the club are missing an incredible PR opportunity if they don't document and promote the topping out with these pieces.
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Coatigan

In view of the fact that the whole hotel facade is now going to appear as black (??) despite the mock up / cock up looking like “50 shades of gray “ surely the sails will not be white ?? Shades of black tights white stilettos lol
 
Penders1957 said:
Coatigan

In view of the fact that the whole hotel facade is now going to appear as black (??) despite the mock up / cock up looking like “50 shades of gray “ surely the sails will not be white ?? Shades of black tights white stilettos lol
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What’s up with yer ? Couple of mirrored disco balls and were good
 
Penders1957 said:
Coatigan

In view of the fact that the whole hotel facade is now going to appear as black (??) despite the mock up / cock up looking like “50 shades of gray “ surely the sails will not be white ?? Shades of black tights white stilettos lol
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This is just my own personal take for discussion, before anyone jumps on my back.

Imho, and I stress the H (and the O for that matter) that would be the best outcome. I.e simple all white sails against a wholly black/dark grey background. It was the mishmash of colours and materials used that was imho killing it, and what was giving it that '60s office' look that people described.

It will certainly now lose the 'checkered' part of the look. Which imo is better and simpler. One shade/variation of grey down.

As far as we know the horizontals havent changed colour yet, they are still the lighter insipid grey, and still ppc panels.

I think they will have introduced perforations to these panels now, having seen the one odd randomly placed now removed panel on the hotel that I pointed out in previous photos. And the fact you can see a pattern of coupled rectangular cutouts in the backing panel at each room and level, which look like intake extract size and spacing.

Whether these perforations as a consequence then push them to change the colour to a darker grey (because the contrast might be too stark otherwise), no idea. I personally would hope it does. It almost certainly removes the possibility of these particular panels changing to glass now (as the verticals have), as that would be really hard to make work. As far as we know, currently the horizontal bands are still proposed as light grey ppc per the mock-up.

The sails themselves are in 2 colours which imo doesnt help. 3, technically, as the panel edge on the mock-up is left unfinished. Matching the frame colour to the colour of the panels could lose that 'diy' look that the mock-up has. They did remember take the sails off at one point. But then put them back on pretty much as they were. So we don’t know whether there is any change to it or not.

Given what we see being built so far, it is safe to say the mock-up is no longer 100% representative of what we will get.

The office block will have the same look and build as well btw. The mock-up kind of covers both. But with the benefit of having almost all of it clear glass, that the hotel inherently couldn't do. Which if I was guessing, was what pushed whoever it was that insisted on the change of the vertical panels at the hotel, to try get them looking more similar.

One final curveball. For all we know, there could be a 'dorian gray' different mock-up in a factory somewhere that is impractical to get to site at this point, that supercedes this one. I.e this one could have been used to make comments on, but they are then reflected in the other one for cost/time, and planners and clients go see that one instead to agree final finishes. And maybe taking the sails off could have been to take templates to recreate there. I have known this to happen fwiw.
 
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jrb said:
I'm being serious.

City should invite CP Overview and SS Skies to a match once the North stand is fully open.

They both deserve to watch a City match in the GA+ seats on NSL2.
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I'd support that - they've done a sterling job of documenting this build - just think back to the South Stand Extension, nothing like this was done by anyone back then - I hope they're getting good Ad Revenue from YT
 
Noticed the glass being installed in the hotel as I passed the site on Saturday, is that likely to be open before the extended stand? Would make sense commercially to take advantage of Arena customers I suppose
Or is the plan to open them simultaneously?
 
LongsightM13 said:
Noticed the glass being installed in the hotel as I passed the site on Saturday, is that likely to be open before the extended stand? Would make sense commercially to take advantage of Arena customers I suppose
Or is the plan to open them simultaneously?
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A good while after the stand. Probably summer 2026. The internals will take ages by comparison to the stand. They seal up the building with the glass and panels so that it’s weather resistant inside and ready for that internal work.
 
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