dnweava wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:08 pm instead of the location, I'd like to discuss the design. So populous is working on it I guess? 95% of their stadiums are boring, generic modern spaceships. They designed Miami and Atlanta's baseball stadiums which are both trash, but they also did Minneapolis and and New Yankee which are both great.
My ideal stadium would be Target field but with Art Deco and Beaux arts elements. I really like Target's interior and size which fits in it's urban footprint and isn't just a generic symmetrical ballpark, but something like Yankee stadiums exterior with it's classic design. KC has so much great Art Deco/Beaux arts buildings and it's a travesty that it doesn't get the love it deserves. Between Union Station, Muni arena, P&L tower, Liberty memorial, and City hall, we have some of the most underrated buildings in the entire country and it would be amazing to complement with a stadium that has some of those beautiful elements. The world doesn't need another stadium that looks like it belongs in a suburban office park.
I'd also hope we go for a right sized stadium that we can fill on a regular basis but design it for temp seating for season openers and playoffs and such. I don't know why we have never seen this in baseball, but I think retractable/temp seats make so much sense. Have something like 32k permanent seats, and have like a party deck that can have retractable or portable bleachers to increase capacity when needed like how Tampa Bucs had temps seats for the Brady years or Arizona Cardinals fills in the endzone with extra seats for superbowls. But design the area so it looks good as a party deck, unlike the Arizona endzone which looks absolutely terrible when the temp seats aren't there.
Also, another crazy idea, use the Buck O'Neil bridge in the stadium since MoDot is currently trying to give it away. Could use it as a roof structure/big arch over the main entrance, or like part of the roof structure over some of the seats.
I agree. The ugly space ship stadiums are awful looking. Arrowhead looks like trash now, soldier field, all this stuff covered in modern glass I just don’t like.
Love the look of Yankees or Camden yards.