Lansdowne Road Stadium
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@Tuborg wrote:
That cropped Havelock Square end certainly gives the stadium quite a strange shape when viewed from the air!
You were going to say bed pan weren’t you and then you thought better of it and decided to say ‘strange’ instead;)
@Tuborg wrote:
That cropped Havelock Square end certainly gives the stadium quite a strange shape when viewed from the air!
On the whole, it’s going to be a terrific venue for Irish sport but unfortunately theres no getting away from the fact that the capacity is just too small!! 🙁
I’d say the plan is to buy up the properties behind the Havelock Square end over time and complete the stadium properly at a later date. At least – that should be the plan!
If followed through, one would imagine this would increase the capacity to somewhere between 60,000 and 65,000. For me, this would be just about the right size.@gunter wrote:
You were going to say bed pan weren’t you and then you thought better of it and decided to say ‘strange’ instead;)
I didn’t want to compare our new national stadium to a piss pot, but you can’t deny theres a resemblance there! 🙂
Pity the Brazil game isn’t there. I reckon the midfield partnership of Kaka and Dudu would really suit the new place
(sorry folks but that’s the winner 😉 )
it kind of looks like that, at some stage in the design process, the site location fell between two stools
@alonso wrote:
Pity the Brazil game isn’t there. I reckon the midfield partnership of Kaka and Dudu would really suit the new place
(sorry folks but that’s the winner 😉 )
I’d say you were a bit flushed after squeezing out that nugget:o
@Tuborg wrote:
I didn’t want to compare our new national stadium to a piss pot, but you can’t deny theres a resemblance there! 🙂
Of course it’s not our national stadium, our national sports along with a host of others can’t be played there.
It works at both ends.
Believe it or not the em.. ‘evacuation passages’ in the stadium are technically known as vomitaria.
In an emergency, the stadium is designed for 50,000 people to be evacuated through these vomitaria in about 8 minutes I think. Visions from The Exorcist come to mind.
New ground level photos of the Potty Bowl!:
More exterior ones on the development site:
http://www.lrsdc.ie/gallery/singlecategory.asp?PCID=130It’s certainly looking truss-o-riffic and they hang very close over the top tier of seats, time will tell whether it ends up looking clunky and over-engineered or whether all that steel skeleton adds something to the character of the place.
Far too much toilet humour going on here. I don’t want to go through the motions.
But with only 50,000 bums on seats it looks like money down the drain.I’ll get my coat.
Just point me to the nearest vomiteria :rolleyes:What happens when Ronan O’Gara (or Johnny Sexton) kicks a Garryowen in this stadium?
I can see the whole upper tier of spectators suffering whiplash trying to follow the flight of the ball.
Very disappointed with those trusses, there must have been a more discreet method of implementing them but it was probably more expensive and deemed not to be worthwhile.
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