Lansdowne Road Stadium

SD, I presumed Jem was being sarcastic in the first post. Was I wrong?

A few recent pics (good ol bank holidays ;)) It’s really beginning to take shape and I wasn’t the only tourist in the area

Wide shot from Ringsend Road Bridge

Ringsend Dodder

O’Connell Gardens

Irony Havelock Square Style

More Havelock Square

When you walk the area you really get a sense of the scale, especially at O’Connell Gardens where it looms over the back gardens. The Dodder Walk to the rear of the East stand is now closed for construction so no photos were possible from here. Coming home to look at the above is a bit of a let down, First hand experience is essential

While the merits of this development are open to debate and many still regard the IGB as a better site, as the inspector did, this is still one of the biggest construction projects in the State and one of the few to have the Wow factor – it really is a grand project and one which despite the arguments has managed to take an historic site and reuse it as it has been done for longer than any other stadium on the planet – ie rugby. And as a soccer fan i’ll be greatly greatly relieved to go here again instead of Croker.

Stay tuned for the Christmas update!

Its well adanced, about halfway i reckon.

More images on:

http://www.lrsdc.ie/gallery/photocategory.asp?PCID=34&NCID=68

probably the most frequently updated construction site for any major project in this country, fair play to the LRSDC.

Good article on the engineering of the roof

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=453&storycode=3122100&c=2

World class stadium and great design!! Pity that the capacity of the stadium is just 50,000, would of liking to see 60,000 capacity at the stadium. I know height was an issue but if they positioned the stadium to a more central location of site they would be able for 60,000 capacity. One side of stadium very low but if it was positioned centrally away from houses or turn 90 degrees it would reach 60,000+ capacity. Still like the plan, i know they need a bit of open space at the site Ah well:p

It’s too small, the end with 6 to 10 rows of seats look horrendous. The Irish Rugby team pull 70000 – 80000 at every game now, New Lansdowne Road Stadium is a complete waste. The Estadio da luz in Lisbon and the Emirates stadiums referenced above are vastly superior.

I bet that is their intentions, and this part of the stadium will be developed to a height like the rest.

Will probably bring the capacity up to 65,000 then. ( or even 70,000)

Cheers for posting Greg. Seems to imply a mirrored finish ! I’d prefer semi-translucent panels myself, obvious potential for lighting to completely change the colour of the exterior.

I’m not crazy about severity of dip at the havelock square end, perhaps this can be re-worked in future but given the ‘seamless’ nature of the wall roof/structure, it won’t be easy to achieve and it appears no provision has been made, could be wrong though.

It will however lend itself to a brilliant camera-lift angle from the havelock square end; where the stadium wall curves forward to become the roof & a packed stadium comes in to view 😉

@johnglas wrote:

Ah, the beautiful game! Even the stadium is beautiful! (cf. Cabaret)

But where are the wirgens?

Anyone got any new images of the stadium? The lansdowne redevelopment website has not been updated with any new pics since October.