Lansdowne Road Stadium

The images of the exterior still make it look like an ugly brute; no wonder the residents were upset. Even the aerial progress shots demonstrate just how cramped the site is.

Of course, but they’re punting an image of it that makes it look like an ugly brute,etc. Maybe that’s just the ‘warrant design’ and there’s a swan in there somewhere. We’ll see.

I hadn’t seen this view before…

the north and south stands are constrained by the adjoining residnces, particularly the North

Going by the stadium on the Dart the other day i noticed they have built what looks like a mock up of the cladding. Its fixed to a steel structure on the left off the train tracks heading in towards the city. From what i could make out the cladding just looked like large glass louvres but it was half covered and the train passed it quite quickly so i didnt get a good look. In reality it didnt seem as reflective or shiny as its depicted in the 3d images.
Has anyone else seen this or been able to get a better look at it?

@shed wrote:

Going by the stadium on the Dart the other day i noticed they have built what looks like a mock up of the cladding. Its fixed to a steel structure on the left off the train tracks heading in towards the city. From what i could make out the cladding just looked like large glass louvres but it was half covered and the train passed it quite quickly so i didnt get a good look. In reality it didnt seem as reflective or shiny as its depicted in the 3d images.
Has anyone else seen this or been able to get a better look at it?

I haven’t seen the mock up, but I think it’s supposed to resemble the transparent ‘scales’ on the curved outer skin of the Allianz Arena in Munich. http://www.allianz-arena.de/en/fakten/ The translucent skin on the Allianz is illuminated internally by, either red or blue, lighting depending on which of the resident clubs. Bayern, or Munich 1860, are playing.

The Allianz stadium was designed, in 2001, by Herzog & de Meuron (like everything else in Munich), and the renders of the new Lansdowne always looked like a straight copy to me. I imagine the correct term is ‘influenced by’.

Biggest visual difference would be that the Lansdowne skin appeared shinier, as you say. Then there’s the issue that Lansdowne is located in the city, as opposed to out in the back of beyond (which is good), but is dented on one side, as observed by keating, (which is bad).

Apart obviously from the scaly skin, the allianze Arena is the most completely scaleless building I’ve ever seen. There are no visual clues until you get up close and then it manages to be both, hugely impressive and surprisingly intimate, at the same time. It’s a real pity that, in emulating the Allianz Arena, Lansdowne will be compromised by the drop in scale at the Havelock Square end, The shallower dip at the Lansdowne Road end probably doesn’t diminish the unity of the design too much.

I suppose a person’s conservation credentials would be revoked if they were to suggest that one side of Havelock Square (and a bit of O’Connell Gardens) should be sacrificed to facilitate the completion of the circuit of the stadium, on design grounds alone! with the happy consequence of getting the stadium capacity up a bit, towards the 60,000 level of demand! no chance of that happening?

I think that the new lansdowne road stadium looks fantastic……but…….It just doesnt seem to fit or look right where its going to be…….If it was thought out properly you would think that the national stadium of Ireland would be located in the centre of ireland

Dublin is the centre of Ireland!:)

@Shane M wrote:

I think that the new lansdowne road stadium looks fantastic……but…….It just doesnt seem to fit or look right where its going to be…….If it was thought out properly you would think that the national stadium of Ireland would be located in the centre of ireland

Yes, Athlone would have been the logical choice for the stadium. This is outrageous planning, etc.

Athlone! gimme a break!

Dublin is the most accessible location, all roads and rail lead there. how do you get to Athlone from Donegal or Waterford of Dundalk or Belfast or Derry…?

Also, largest population centre

It’s a no-brainer, surely