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Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site
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Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium
Vinoly's involvement is a tad unusual as the training complex is, as others say, nowt special architecturally.
It is designed in a far more utilitarian manner than I expect and in truth is, in lookds nothing more than OK really.
Logic suggests that Vinoly has his name associated with because he is the lead architect for the areas masterplan and not all details of every element.
I suspect there is a rather large plan we have not yet seen that will look and feel very much more like a Vinoly project.
It will surely include the stadium and collar site development, but also additional land we are still buying as well as co-developed peripheral elements such as housing and roads etc.
Vinoly's involvement is a tad unusual as the training complex is, as others say, nowt special architecturally.
It is designed in a far more utilitarian manner than I expect and in truth is, in lookds nothing more than OK really.
Logic suggests that Vinoly has his name associated with because he is the lead architect for the areas masterplan and not all details of every element.
I suspect there is a rather large plan we have not yet seen that will look and feel very much more like a Vinoly project.
It will surely include the stadium and collar site development, but also additional land we are still buying as well as co-developed peripheral elements such as housing and roads etc.
Etihad Campus & potential new stadium
I hope your right fbloke! Exciting times ahead for east Manchester and mcfc
fbloke said:Vinoly's involvement is a tad unusual as the training complex is, as others say, nowt special architecturally.
It is designed in a far more utilitarian manner than I expect and in truth is, in lookds nothing more than OK really.
Logic suggests that Vinoly has his name associated with because he is the lead architect for the areas masterplan and not all details of every element.
I suspect there is a rather large plan we have not yet seen that will look and feel very much more like a Vinoly project.
It will surely include the stadium and collar site development, but also additional land we are still buying as well as co-developed peripheral elements such as housing and roads etc.
I hope your right fbloke! Exciting times ahead for east Manchester and mcfc
GXCity
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Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium
It will be a while for the announcement on the stadium. I will update the thread when I now something concrete but my gut feeling is the end of the season. It's worth the wait
Marvin said:maybe the "Stadium" news we've been waiting for will follow the appointment of a Chief Exec
It will be a while for the announcement on the stadium. I will update the thread when I now something concrete but my gut feeling is the end of the season. It's worth the wait
Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium
If it's the end of the season before anything is announced, then presumably there's no hope of work beginning on the stadium during the summer of 2013 given the time the planning process will take.
Is the 'collar site' tied to a similar timescale, or could there be an announcement regarding that part of the development at an earlier stage?
GXCity said:Marvin said:maybe the "Stadium" news we've been waiting for will follow the appointment of a Chief Exec
It will be a while for the announcement on the stadium. I will update the thread when I now something concrete but my gut feeling is the end of the season. It's worth the wait
If it's the end of the season before anything is announced, then presumably there's no hope of work beginning on the stadium during the summer of 2013 given the time the planning process will take.
Is the 'collar site' tied to a similar timescale, or could there be an announcement regarding that part of the development at an earlier stage?
GXCity
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Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium
As things currently stand you are looking at a 3 - 4 year timescale for the stadium redevelopment to be complete. Collar site will follow on from the stadium, although hopefully it will run concurrently for a while to reduce the project timeline.
petrusha said:GXCity said:Marvin said:maybe the "Stadium" news we've been waiting for will follow the appointment of a Chief Exec
It will be a while for the announcement on the stadium. I will update the thread when I now something concrete but my gut feeling is the end of the season. It's worth the wait
If it's the end of the season before anything is announced, then presumably there's no hope of work beginning on the stadium during the summer of 2013 given the time the planning process will take.
Is the 'collar site' tied to a similar timescale, or could there be an announcement regarding that part of the development at an earlier stage?
As things currently stand you are looking at a 3 - 4 year timescale for the stadium redevelopment to be complete. Collar site will follow on from the stadium, although hopefully it will run concurrently for a while to reduce the project timeline.
Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium
Thanks. Makes sense to do as much of it concurrently as possible, I guess.
Very much looking forward to having some news, anyway.
GXCity said:As things currently stand you are looking at a 3 - 4 year timescale for the stadium redevelopment to be complete. Collar site will follow on from the stadium, although hopefully it will run concurrently for a while to reduce the project timeline.
Thanks. Makes sense to do as much of it concurrently as possible, I guess.
Very much looking forward to having some news, anyway.
Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium
With all due respect, people have been saying "I expect a stadium announcement at the end of the season" for the last three seasons, and there's no more evidence to suggest it will happen now than there was then. People are letting their overanticipation and overexcitement over what is nothing more than an assumption that changes to the stadium will be made consume them and this debate - I really think we all need to stop predicting and adopt a "it happens when it happens" attitude. Every time people predict a stadium announcement and it doesn't happen, the disappointment generated gets closer and closer to upset and even anger - I really worry that we're creating such a big myth with such a great following that when the actual announcement comes out - which I personally predict won't happen for another 3-5 years minimum - then we'll have worked ourselves up to such a degree that if the announcement doesn't match expectations (and those expectations are steadily becoming ever more elaborate) that it will actually be unacceptable to many of us here.
Yeah, I know, I'm a worrier, but I already see the disappointment in this thread and I have seen the signs that it's turning into unrest...
tl;dr - Can we please stop bigging up the supposed stadium announcement, as I fear the term "setting ourselves up for a fall" is becoming ever more accurate.
GXCity said:Marvin said:maybe the "Stadium" news we've been waiting for will follow the appointment of a Chief Exec
It will be a while for the announcement on the stadium. I will update the thread when I now something concrete but my gut feeling is the end of the season. It's worth the wait
With all due respect, people have been saying "I expect a stadium announcement at the end of the season" for the last three seasons, and there's no more evidence to suggest it will happen now than there was then. People are letting their overanticipation and overexcitement over what is nothing more than an assumption that changes to the stadium will be made consume them and this debate - I really think we all need to stop predicting and adopt a "it happens when it happens" attitude. Every time people predict a stadium announcement and it doesn't happen, the disappointment generated gets closer and closer to upset and even anger - I really worry that we're creating such a big myth with such a great following that when the actual announcement comes out - which I personally predict won't happen for another 3-5 years minimum - then we'll have worked ourselves up to such a degree that if the announcement doesn't match expectations (and those expectations are steadily becoming ever more elaborate) that it will actually be unacceptable to many of us here.
Yeah, I know, I'm a worrier, but I already see the disappointment in this thread and I have seen the signs that it's turning into unrest...
tl;dr - Can we please stop bigging up the supposed stadium announcement, as I fear the term "setting ourselves up for a fall" is becoming ever more accurate.
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