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does anyone think it is ironic that an engineering school's stadium looks like it does? No one side is like the other and it looks very pieced together...like each section was afterthought.

Don't get me wrong, I like the new renovations, and I even sat in one on the brand new suites this past Saturday and they are beautiful, but from above, our stadium looks like it was put together by some students.
 
have thought so since 1962. We should have been financing a new stadium instead of renovations thru the years.
 
you are so right. Rather than sink millions of dollars into an existing structure that will never be right...they should have bulldozed the thing and started over.
 
Yeah! Plus the Red Sox should go ahead and level that awful Fenway Park. All those crazy angles and what the heck is that ugly giant green wall. Left field wall is high and goes one way. Center is short and goes the other, right field wall, who knows what that is all about. Yeah, tear the place down and start over.

Now Riverfront, The Vet, ATL-Fulton Co., Three Rivers, those were great stadiums. Perfect circles, every last one of them. I have now idea why they tore those down.
 
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you are so right. Rather than sink millions of dollars into an existing structure that will never be right...they should have bulldozed the thing and started over.

Wow! I didn't know this sentiment existed.
Please do not give Braine any more ideas.
Maybe we can share the dome with the Falcons, and call it ISP Field.
 
This is a BS thread.

The stadium looks GREAT!! A fantastic blend of old architecture with modern asymmetry to make it interesting to the eye. The brick and open steel give it a Camden Yards, turn-of the century (1900s that is...), industrial appearance.

I'm a huge fan of updating and embracing the old rather than throw-away-and-replace with new.

WHO CARES IF IT ISN'T SYMMETRICAL? Its much more art-heavy than those dull looking perfectly symmetrical concrete things (look 85 miles east for an example).

The only thing that would help its appearance is more gold and less orange.......

Go Jackets!
 
Originally posted by cropdusterengineer:
This is a BS thread.

The stadium looks GREAT!! A fantastic blend of old architecture with modern asymmetry to make it interesting to the eye. The brick and open steel give it a Camden Yards, turn-of the century (1900s that is...), industrial appearance.

I'm a huge fan of updating and embracing the old rather than throw-away-and-replace with new.

WHO CARES IF IT ISN'T SYMMETRICAL? Its much more art-heavy than those dull looking perfectly symmetrical concrete things (look 85 miles east for an example).

The only thing that would help its appearance is more gold and less orange.......

Go Jackets!
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">For sure Cropduster, I agree as it gives a character that some stadiums and domes could never have. Although I have often wondered why a building at the south end as opposed to better seating.
 
Originally posted by GeeTee:
does anyone think it is ironic that an engineering school's stadium looks like it does? No one side is like the other and it looks very pieced together...like each section was afterthought.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">The problem lies within what GT was allowed to do. The West stands could not be changed due to it not being compliant (everywhere) w/handicapped access (it is grandfathered in as long as it stays the same). The City of Atlanta would not let the East structure be pushed back (and thus, rebuilt), so the options were seats in the South and a huge North structure.
 
precisely my point...why build something around an existing structure and code regs to force fit an inappropriate renovation?

I know...$$$, but...

the layout is very odd on the east stands. The new suites are nice like I said, but you have to go down steps, under a barrage of steps, back to the outside entrance, then back up steps, just to get the lower stands. Its a maze and with a big building in the endzone and other structures just built to fit their own footprint, it makes for an odd stadium...especially when our alma mater is an engineering school. that was my point.

Its ours and I love it bc of that, but it isn't the prettiest sister on the block by a long shot.
 
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the layout is very odd on the east stands

Without qualifications, the upper east at Grant Field is the best seat in major college football!
Don't change a thing up there.

If you speak of the lower deck, I apologize.
 
I'm with GeeTee on the stairs. I admit I have gotten lost in the East stairs doing exactly what he described. Reminds me of one of the new office buildings in Tech Square where one stairwell ends on the third floor even though the building has four floors.

I don't like the Wardlaw building in the South even though it is pretty nice inside. It does look more out of place now that the field has moved and the goalposts aren't centered on the north face of the building anymore. Also, I think one thing that would make the stadium look better from above is if the upper decks were connected. The Edge building gets in the way in the NE corner and obviously connecting the NW was never an option.

I still think the paint scheme of the field is a bigger problem. At least the Swarm and the band aren't wearing bright yellow anymore.
 
There are also people out there who win a $10 million lottery and then complain about having to pay taxes on half of it.....
 
Please do not misunderstand, Grant Field is our home and I love it. My question has always been, at the beginning, why it was not built with more symmetry so we could connect the uppers. That beeing said, the upper east stands, lacking a curve away from the field, are some of the best seats in football.
 
I love Grant Field, but the renovation has left me somewhat unimpressed, the disjointed appearance struck me too.

Grant Field will one day become a practice facility for more than one sport probably.

GT will be build a new, mega stadium, I would say where the east campus dorms (Glenn, Harris, Cloudman, etc.) are now, right next to the downtown connector. Vehicle traffic of all types, Marta, etc. will have access right into the stadium.
 
That last reply really takes the cake. You guys are incredible!

College football is about TRADITION. BDS@HGF is DRIPPING, no, OOZING with it, and all you seee is "assymmetry".

The place is freaking beautiful. No other place like it.

If you want to throw away history and tradition go watch Arthur Blank's team in the climate-controlled, SYMMETRICAL Georgia Dome!

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Originally posted by GeeTee:
does anyone think it is ironic that an engineering school's stadium looks like it does? No one side is like the other and it looks very pieced together...like each section was afterthought.

Don't get me wrong, I like the new renovations, and I even sat in one on the brand new suites this past Saturday and they are beautiful, but from above, our stadium looks like it was put together by some students.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">Well, that's what happens when you hold onto the oldest stadium in Div. 1 history and continually renovate it.
 
Right on GTflunkout...

The Ga Dome has to be the ugliest structure ever built.

I have never been to a football stadium as great looking as the "new" BDS@HGF! They get an A+ for the construction process (not interupting a single football game) and the end result!

Now if I can just get back in my old lower east seats on the 35 yard line for less than $1500.......

Go Jackets!
 
GTFlunkout.."the place is freaking beautiful".

No it isn't. Have you ever been to other stadiums?

Like several here have said, we love it bc it is ours, but a thing a beauty, she ain't.

As for the oozing and dripping you speak of, many other fields are as old with history. We even shifted our field itself. We added two new stuctures in the endzones. We gutted most of the inside of the east stands for the suites. We've messed alot with that "ooze".
 
I don't think it will win any architecture awards but I think they did a good job with what we had to work with (aren't we always saying this about everything at GT?). The new stadium has good sight lines, and great amenities.

If we had the luxury of hindsight, I would of liked to see us build the Wardlaw building where the current North stands are. We could of done something really nice and asthetic with a renovated south stands.
 
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