North Stand Construction Discussion

[ccoverview]

Where's the swimming pool going?
Those diving boards are pretty high up.

Those boards are low, wait to you see in my video what the crane driver was doing !
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[jrb]

Those boards are low, wait to you see in my video what the crane driver was doing !
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Can't wait! :-)

 

[dadnlad]

have they fitted new bulb before fitting into place

 

[HelloCity]

Those boards are low, wait to you see in my video what the crane driver was doing !
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Having a tug?

 

[ccoverview]

Here you go

 

[ccoverview]

is this the before or after photo in relation to the journey to the top of the world and back? ;-)

Its after, that is how they left it

 

[Coatigan]

The first horizontal panels are up. Light grey with perforations. What a shame. Ah well.

 

[Coatigan]

Its after, that is how they left it

How windy was it?

There is a fair sway and rock on that piece, in the video. Could be that the conditions werent right to try control a piece of that size hanging off a crane and that's why it was sent back down.

 

[WARBABY]

How windy was it?

There is a fair sway and rock on that piece, in the video. Could be that the conditions werent right to try control a piece of that size hanging off a crane and that's why it was sent back down.

Have to hope it was the wind and not a fabrication error

 

[Coatigan]

Have to hope it was the wind and not a fabrication error

They never really get close enough to try line it up. So if it is an error, it must be a pretty big one that they can spot from what 600-900mm apart.

 

[Centurions]

Suppose I asked for that for being stupid

Not at all bud, in fact using @cpoverview 's latest video you can see (I think) that the cable connections are handed, as the leftmost ones are angled out. So you were quite correct.




Edit: it wasn't you who suggested it actually, but still...

 

[foggy1974]

It's not very tight drafting and you could see how differing interpretations might easily arise. My guess at this stage would be I'd guess that as long as it's sports/leisure/entertainment related, i.e. the sorts of wider developments that a football club might anchor in the modern climate, and as long as there's no gap between the club's own land around its stadium/training ground and the ground where this business is, it should be OK.

I'd like to see what has been allowed through on this point, however. That might well give us greater clarity.

You know the EPL & cartel clubs will try to screw us over this

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

Here you go

Anyone else’s legs go to jelly watching the guy at the top end of the crane?!

 

[Alty_Blue]

Have to hope it was the wind and not a fabrication error

Would they not have practised attaching the cap to the quadpod in a controlled environment (i.e. at ground level) in advance to make sure it all fitted together before they had a go at 60m in the air?

 

[Chris Holmes]

Here you go

Exciting and dramatic, especially the speeded up section with the music. The drama of the big cap piece was like watching a moon, or BlueMoon, landing! and then lunar module taking off as it came back to Earth.

 

[SouthStandStander]

Here you go

Caught another drone on your vid. Around the 25 minutes 50 second part onwards. It was only a mini drone but was very very close to the workers etc..

 

[Gray]

Have to hope it was the wind and not a fabrication error

Didn't look that windy, they never tried to attach it. Something amiss I think.

 

[DiscoSteve]

Here you go

OMG that crane driver is off his head all the way out the end of the crane jib!!!!

 

[WARBABY]

OMG that crane driver is off his head all the way out the end of the crane jib!!!!

Just a job you get used to it, highest I've worked at is 650 feet

 

[.db.]

Ok
That’s ur opinion, just for Balance and for the record how would u want a 4 star hotel stuck between a football stadium and a concert Arena in inner City Manchester to look ?

Serious question


For the record I like it and I also think when finished ,will look total acceptable for what it is and where it fits in to the campus overall

I bloody love the look of this:



Just look at it, superb! Looks exactly like a big vocal stand should look like. Huge steep tier to house a substantial group of fans under a deep roof, nowhere near away fans so will never get moved for Cup games. Mint!

But I think the quality of the buildings that are going up on the external of this fantastic looking stand are not of a similar standard aesthetically.


(And buildings always look better in the renders than when realised.)

Similarly, Co-Op Live is a fantastic looking building. It’s made the stadium look poor in comparison, so you’d have expected the stadium to start to catch up to Co-Op Live so there was an architectural equivalence standard of the two main buildings on the site. But for me the external plan falls short of that.



Plus from the outside it will hide the stadium too much/won’t look like a football stadium.



If the hotel had been built where I’ve highlighted in yellow/blue/pink here, it wouldn’t matter how it looked because it wouldn’t be part of the stadium:



But it is literally going to be part of the stadium, so it does matter how good it looks. There aren’t many new hotels in Manchester or in Britain that are particularly architecturally good looking, which makes the idea of having it as part of the stadium daft.

That’s just my take on it all.

There’ll be others who think the opposite; they may not like the architecture of Co-Op Live but like the North Stand external buildings. There’ll be others who like both. There’ll be others who like neither. There’ll be others who won’t let people have an opinion because it differs from their own and they’ll tell them to support another team because they don’t know how to converse with people properly or they fail to understand that human are capable of both liking or disliking the look of things.