vivalarepublica wrote:
I would think the glass roof would be added after the temporary seats are removed for world champs and they might have a lower cost, temporary roof.
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Step away from the bong. How could you posSibley come to that vonclusion?
Once those glulam ribs go up, the metal webbing, electrical, drainage and roof panels will immediately go up. The roof is not a temporary structure.
It happens all the time. The venue rents/leases the seats for the big event and then afterward has the permanent larger seats installed. They don't own and keep the first set of seats.
The most notable projects are the Dallas stadium added 15,000 for the Super Bowl. (Got in trouble because they didn't recalculate egress requirements, so I believe fire marshal didn't allow all the seats to be used. There are lawsuits about bought tickets, which weren't able to be used.)
And London Olympic stadium demounted and removed some 30-40,000 seats after the Olympics.
Since both of these were know to be temporary, the venue didn't buy the seats, they rented or leased them.
I'm sure someone made a buck selling the seats after the fact as Super Bowl or Olympic Seats.
Pretty easy...
It looks like there are about 40 sections in the lower bowl of that picture (if you count from the 100 m start to the 1500 m start it is 20). Using a pretty standard 20 seat row with 15 rows you get... 40*20*15=12000.
The upper deck is much bigger, but only on the home stretch (it tapers down on the first curve, remains tapered for the back straight, and then is gone by the turn). It's pretty easy to get 30 sections in the upper bowl, if the 10 on the home stretch are 40 rows and the remaining sections average 20 rows that's an additional... (10*20*40)+(20*20*20)=16,000
Knower of arena building wrote:
Pretty easy...
It looks like there are about 40 sections in the lower bowl of that picture (if you count from the 100 m start to the 1500 m start it is 20). Using a pretty standard 20 seat row with 15 rows you get... 40*20*15=12000.
The upper deck is much bigger, but only on the home stretch (it tapers down on the first curve, remains tapered for the back straight, and then is gone by the turn). It's pretty easy to get 30 sections in the upper bowl, if the 10 on the home stretch are 40 rows and the remaining sections average 20 rows that's an additional... (10*20*40)+(20*20*20)=16,000
With the Phil Knight article I was searching for stuff today and found this old thread. If they can actually get close to 30,000 great. However, I don't see with that design how many of the seats are temporary. It looks like a full fledged stadium with permanent seats. I assumed both ends would have temporary seats like the current Hayward. Would that be feasible with the roof on the one end? or do you think the one roof on the end is just for show and really won't be built.
How about sharing these designs with the public? It's a public school I'd hope they could be more transparent and get some input.
broken arrow wrote:
Stupid. They are ruining the uniqueness of Hayward Field for what??? The World Champs should be in a large venue, in a large city. NIKE is ruining this stadium for one track meet.
Agree 1000%.