New Trafford

booyaka said:
Correct choice - Redeveloping OT was never going to work....

Looks good but no mention of how it's all going to be funded.....
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Jims going to grind up the local poor and homeless for the foundations and then knock down the houses of the people he just fired to steal the bricks or something like that i'm sure. There will be a million article about it coming out no doubt if it ever gets off the ground.
 
fez said:
Jims going to grind up the local poor and homeless for the foundations
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pleanty of them in that area

I went to Old Trafford in the mid 1990`s on a School trip

My lasting memory of it was the stadium is surrounded by a third world slum with grotty boarded up buildings everywhere
 
Looks… interesting.

No mention of how it will be funded and no target dates.

Ratcliffe wants the government to come to the table and pay for everything except the stadium structure itself.

Can’t see this being remotely straightforward…
 
I mean it obviously would need tax money involvement but if it improves infrastructure and gives economic improvements across the north then it'll be a benefit beyond the club and Manchester.

So long as it's not another HS2 and it ends up just being a new stadium being built in Birmingham.
 
booyaka said:
Correct choice - Redeveloping OT was never going to work....

Looks good but no mention of how it's all going to be funded.....
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Certainly not the glazers ,haven't yet finished milking the club they are playing everyone got Jim in to rescue them while they take backseat and watch
 
I'm glad they're going for something different, modern stadium designs are a bit generic generally. I'm not entirely convinced yet but some of the shots (particularly smaller scale ones) look great, love the trident look from each end but less sure how it looks from above. 5 years it seems and it'll be built beside Old Trafford so they'll demolish that afterwards.
 
Shamikebab said:
I'm glad they're going for something different, modern stadium designs are a bit generic generally. I'm not entirely convinced yet but some of the shots (particularly smaller scale ones) look great, love the trident look from each end but less sure how it looks from above. 5 years it seems and it'll be built beside Old Trafford so they'll demolish that afterwards.
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I’d hope they would keep it but reduce it down and use it still.

Also, having watched the architect video too, they mentioned redeveloping Old Trafford station. From personal experience, five years will be incredibly ambitious to even get that done…
 
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That is a truly hideous stadium design, to the point where im amazed they are happy to show it publically.

Would be fuming if i supported United and had been looking forward to a new stadium, only to have this war crime of a design shown to me.

It looks like an over-elaborate shopping mall you'd find somewhere like Dubai or something and will look hilariously out of place/tacky in the middle of Manchester.

Just awful.
 
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I don’t dislike the design, but it does look like it belongs in Dubai…

I’m sure it would be impressive.
 
Does somebody that isn't bias want to break down how any of this, makes finical sense. United are in a billion debt, will need to borrow another two (which will probably end up being three or four) for 25k more seats when they already have a backlash about ticket prices.

I get something needs to be done about old Trafford, but going from we can't afford the tea lady and free chip butties to we are good for an extra 2 billion debt seems off.
 
When I was doing my RIBA Part 2 I went and visited Norman Foster's office and spoke to the structural engineer who was (or still is) a lecturer at Bath University as I was doing a study on their work on the roof of the British Museum. It seems they have taken the same design idea and multiplied it by 100.
 
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