Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[Wilf Wild 1937]

I think the stadium looks okay externally by stadium standards. Really there's only the Allianz Arena among the top stadiums that looks great externally. Even Wembley looks a bit shit. I've no doubt that when the side stands are complete it will get a make over. I can't say I'm too arsed until then. An ugly exterior can be quite intimidating to away teams and supporters but I don't think The Etihad is that ugly anyway. Maybe it will start to look a bit dated when Spurs and Chelsea build their new stadiums but it's a "nice to have" rather than a priority for me.

 

[Danamy]

I think the stadium looks okay externally by stadium standards. Really there's only the Allianz Arena among the top stadiums that looks great externally. Even Wembley looks a bit shit. I've no doubt that when the side stands are complete it will get a make over. I can't say I'm too arsed until then. An ugly exterior can be quite intimidating to away teams and supporters but I don't think The Etihad is that ugly anyway. Maybe it will start to look a bit dated when Spurs and Chelsea build their new stadiums but it's a "nice to have" rather than a priority for me.

I agree, it's when things start to look shit on the pitch we should all be worrying

The stadium will grow and take shape as the club grows and forms it's new identity, what happens on the green bit in the middle is the priority for me.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Things must be good when we moan about the condition of the concrete .....

Personally I like the pics and don't think the ground looks too bad.

I think a much more pressing issue is to relocate and enlarge City Square as I seem to remember that it's current position was deemed only temporary.

 

[kev20971]

Things must be good when we moan about the condition of the concrete .....

Personally I like the pics and don't think the ground looks too bad.

I think a much more pressing issue is to relocate and enlarge City Square as I seem to remember that it's current position was deemed only temporary.

I think instead of one new City Square the club should think about making maybe two or three of them around the campus .

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I think instead of one new City Square the club should think about making maybe two or three of them around the campus .

Could work, but the original plan was for a City Street leading to a Square, guess we'll have to wait til the full site is developed and a few more years.

 

[kev20971]

Could work, but the original plan was for a City Street leading to a Square, guess we'll have to wait til the full site is developed and a few more years.

Yes I think the club looked how German clubs did it with their bars around the stadium, but the council or maybe the police wouldn't let them, so City Street turned into City Square, with the beer bars behind a fence !

 

[jrb]

I'm sort of guessing here, but I'm 99% sure City Square will eventually disappear and will be replaced by the leisure destination on the Collar site. I think the ultimate goal is to get fans, tourists, visitors, and locals to go there before and after matches. I suppose the fate of City Squre depends on what plans the club have for the North Stand. Either way, the footprint of the expanded North stand will swallow up a large swathe of City Square, including the current stage area, etc. Interesting times indeed.

Oh to be involved in the wider development of the Collar site and Etihad Campus. Fair play to those People and companies that are. Just like the CFA nothing is coming out. And to think, those people involved have been working on the leisure destination and Etihad Campus proposals for years.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Get the stadium wrapped up with a bird's nest, job done!

 

[twosips]

Find it hard to understand the idea that the Etihad is ugly. It's beautiful!

 

[stony]

I can't make my mind up what this looks like. A giant hairbrush, a scraper for de icing your car window, or a giant robotic cock and balls.