Lost / Demolished Stadiums or Stands [Archive] - Page 2

Mieres

December 24th, 2008, 03:39 PM

Demolición del Carlos Tartiere, estadio del Real Oviedo equipo de la ciudad de Oviedo, Asturias, España.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/200/479757051_dd89478f86_o.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demoliciondos.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demoliciondiez.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demoliciondoce.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demolicionsiete.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demolicionquince.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demolicion35.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demolicion31.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demolicion52.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demolicion68.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demo76.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demo80.jpg

http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demo87.jpg

Fotos sacadas de la pagina web www.oviedin.com http://www.oviedin.com/carlostartiere/derribo/demo87.jpg

Y actualmente en esa parcela esta el palacio de congresos Princesa Letizia, obra de Calatrava http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=441933&page=41
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/TeleLi/Imagen075-1.jpg

Esta ultima foto obra de la forera asturiana TeleLi

Zeno2

December 25th, 2008, 03:25 PM

nice Oviedo pics, although it's always sad to see a stadium being demolished.

Benjuk

December 26th, 2008, 12:37 AM

Was supposed to look something like this with a seating capacity between 150-160,000.

A decision the AFL will regret in future...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/Hornet/waverley.jpg

Would have been a spectacular sight, no doubt. Pity the AFL picked such a dumb location!

Lol, look at the carparking around Waverly Park. Forza public transport!! :lol:

And there lies the problem... You couldn't get to the place without a car! I'm told by friends who were regulars there that the shallow nature of the majority of the stadium meant that it was virtually impossible to see the match unless you were 6 feet tall.

NavyBlue

December 26th, 2008, 02:25 PM

^^

Location wise it was built near the geographical heart of the city...

...and a rail link was 'promised' by the state government of the day. :lol:

Benjuk

December 28th, 2008, 09:45 PM

^^

Location wise it was built near the geographical heart of the city...

...and a rail link was 'promised' by the state government of the day. :lol:

Geographical heart and real heart are two very different things though, are they not.

As for state government promisses... Extremely naive to fall for any of them.

BobDaBuilder

December 28th, 2008, 11:22 PM

Basincreek

December 29th, 2008, 03:40 AM

Surprised to not see Three Rivers, Riverfront, Kingdome or the old stadiums in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Baltimore posted yet.

Alx-D

December 29th, 2008, 11:50 PM

Exhibition Stadium, Toronto Canada
1879-1999
5,000-54,000

former home of the Toronto Argonauts and Blue Jays

http://www.ballparktour.com/CNE_10.jpg
http://www.rdharch.com/community_recreation/exhibition_stadium/exhibition_01.jpg
http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/past/exhibuse.jpg

en1044

December 30th, 2008, 04:09 AM

Surprised to not see Three Rivers, Riverfront, Kingdome or the old stadiums in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Baltimore posted yet.

ok then...

Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA
Cap. 59K

http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/past/threeoldstad121600.jpg

replaced with
http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/afc/images/heinz08950.jpg

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/nl/pnc809.jpg

Kingdome, Seattle, WA
Cap. 66K

http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/past/king2.jpg

replaced with
http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/nfc/images/qwest08955.jpg

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/al/safecomainf.jpg

Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, OH
Cap. 60K

http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/past/riverfrontfoot700.jpg

replaced with
http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/afc/images/paul08951.jpg

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/nl/gab911.JPG

Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, OH
Cap. 74K

http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/past/images/cleve08950.jpg

replaced with

http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/afc/images/cbs08902.jpg

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/al/jacobsmainf.jpg

Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, MD
Cap. 65K

http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/past/images/mem08950main.jpg

replaced with

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/al/camdenmainf.jpg

http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/afc/images/mtbank08952.jpg

Zorba

December 30th, 2008, 05:06 AM

Cleveland Municipal tadium really looks like a dump. Thank god it was torn down.

On a side note, the Ravens might have the most beautiful stadium in the NFL. Gorgeous venue.....

Benjuk

December 31st, 2008, 12:25 AM

Everytime a game is staged at the MCG in Melbourne, a large swag of the profits go to the Melbourne Cricket Club and the income is lost to football.

On top of this, when you have a Grand Final you get 50,000 'cricket club' members getting in to watch the game depriving 'the football public' from a seat.

It is a fucking outrage. It would be like reserving half of Wembley on FA Cup Final day for members of the Marylebone Cricket Club.

It was idiotic to sell VFL Park.

Princes Park was also another crazy move. Carlton should never have left. If Melbourne FC had half a clue they would have moved there 10 years ago and they wouldn't be on their way to bankruptcy by now.

Partially inspired by this thread, and partly as a result of having a lot of free time lately, I recently drove around to Princes Park, Victoria Park, Windy Hill, Moorabbin, Glenferrie, etc., and found myself bemoaning the lack of imagination shown by the AFL in centralising operations to the MCG, Princes Park, then later Telstra Dome - rather than updating club's 'home' venues and maintaining that sense of geographic 'belonging'.

The problem, it seems to me, is that Melbourne has become so centralised that it's hard to imagine any major veny functioning out of the central area. So the question would be - where do you build a new AFL venue?

Bobby3

December 31st, 2008, 12:30 AM

Aren't MCC members also MFC members?

Reaper-strain

December 31st, 2008, 12:35 AM

Old Karaiskaki AKA Velodrome in Faliro (Olympiakos FC) Demolished 2003:

http://www.stadia.gr/karaiskaki/neoKaraiskaki-old4.jpg
http://www.stadia.gr/karaiskaki/neoKaraiskaki-old2.jpg

Replacement:

http://www.stadia.gr/karaiskaki/karaiskaki1.jpg
http://www.stadia.gr/karaiskaki/karaiskaki6.jpg

Nikos Goumas Stadio (AEK Athens) Demolished 2003:

http://www.stadia.gr/ngoumas/ngoumasapoolympic.jpg
http://www.stadia.gr/ngoumas/ngoumas7.jpg
http://www.stadiumguide.com/nikosgoumas1.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/99213023_1b15881b16_o.jpg

Replacement:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1037/1158235311_a310465ae3_o.jpg

BobDaBuilder

December 31st, 2008, 12:49 AM

Almeria

December 31st, 2008, 01:29 AM

El Estadio Municipal Juan Rojas es un estadio de fútbol que se encuentra situado en el barrio de Torrecárdenas, en Almería (España). Fue inaugurado en 1976 con el nombre de estadio Franco Navarro. Su aforo actual es 13.648 espectadores (5648 sentados y 8000 de pie), tras la eliminación de la fila nº1 y la colocación de nuevas butacas en Tribuna y Preferencia.
Con la construcción del estadio de los Juegos del Mediterráneo, el viejo estadio de Futbol Juan Rojas será demolido para crear en su lugar la Ciudad Deportiva de la UD Almería.

http://www.fotosdeestadios.hpg.ig.com.br/Espanha/estadio_juanrojas-esp.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/21207.jpg

http://www.ideal.es/almeria/Media/200705/08/CIUDAD-DEPORTIVA-UD-ALMERIA--200x160.jpg

Benjuk

January 1st, 2009, 01:49 AM

Walked over Glenferrie the other night. The Art Deco grandstand still stands. Cannot believe they played league football there. It is quite long, but the wings are very narrow with very small spectator areas on the sides. There are large gums growing in the outer terraces nowadays.

The local residents think it is wonderful the 'riff raff' moved out to Waverley. They don't have all the hoons and idiots to contend with.

Interesting the turnstiles are still there but the ground surface is worse than a cow paddock.

It's in a shocking state, isn't it? I used to work just round the corner and wife used to train at the State Weightlifting Center (between the two stands). I always thought the terracing on the railway side of the ground was quite 'quaint' with the trees there.

Anyway, it looks like they are looking to follow the Albert Park Oval example of leaving the heritage listed stand to fall over rather than doing any work on it. Someone will 'forget' to lock the doors soon and idiots will get inside and wreck what's left. Tragic that no one seems interested in using it.

HoldenV8

January 2nd, 2009, 08:21 AM

In most cases, when an older stadium is demolished and replaced with another (or another 2 in the case of some American cities for MLB & NFL), its a godsend as the old stadiums were usually not purely suited to the games played there. I know some people cry over the loss of old stadiums but then they usually embrace the new ones with their comforts.

Some people claim that the new stadiums don't have the same character as the older ones and while this may be true, think about this. The old stadiums/arenas didn't have their character when they were first built either. It all takes time.

5993

January 2nd, 2009, 09:21 AM

Kråmyra Stadion (capacity: 12,000, city population: 40,000), the old stadium of my club, Aalesunds FK from Norway:

http://www.stormensupport.no/visbilde.php?id=1516

http://www.stormensupport.no/visbilde.php?id=1570

http://www.stormensupport.no/visbilde.php?id=1515

http://www.stormensupport.no/visbilde.php?id=1508

http://www.stormensupport.no/visbilde.php?id=1816

http://www.stormensupport.no/visbilde.php?id=1683

Look at this; thousands of people standing on a hill:

http://www.stormensupport.no/visbilde.php?id=1710

Our stadium today, Color Line Stadion, named after a company owned by a local businessman (opened in 2005, capacity: 12,000, full every match):

http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.24319!img24244.jpg

www.sercan.de

January 22nd, 2009, 11:24 PM

Kayseri Atatürk (25,918)
http://www.ukimagehost.com/uploads/fdc2d3cd24.bmp

How it looked
http://www.fussballtempel.net/uefa/TUR/Ataturk_Kayseri.html

WeimieLvr

January 23rd, 2009, 11:03 AM

Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, 1966-1996...classic 1960s circular multi-purpose stadium
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3096/2869017045_437ccf4f66.jpg?v=0http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1360/1156197003_9973420ee0.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10054722@N07/2869017045/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrprbrown/1156197003/

Reduced to a pile of junk...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/155521711_9a5b18bc26.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/155521711/

The ghost of Atlanta's old stadium, alongside Turner Field
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/10678497_ddd462491d.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/partee/10678497/

WeimieLvr

January 23rd, 2009, 11:17 AM

Atlanta's Omni Coliseum, 1972-1997...an architectural marvel in it's day, with its space frame roof and Cor-Ten exterior.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/148531617_3bb84b1bd1.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mishmash8/148531617/

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/59/192350422_5f8bc1f95b.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toddevans/192350422/

WeimieLvr

January 23rd, 2009, 11:38 AM

Charlotte Coliseum, 1988-2007...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Coliseum1988.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Coliseum

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/299053299_3e9bba8663.jpg?v=0http://farm1.static.flickr.com/118/299124516_f6f81ed130.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolinatim/299053299/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolinatim/299124516/in/set-72157594379345016/

A pile of rubble...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1364/652170844_ab5f631c34.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregduckworth/652170844/

isaidso

January 23rd, 2009, 11:45 AM

Varsity Stadium at the University of Toronto, Canadian Football stadium
It opened in 1898, but was replaced by a newer structure in 1924. This second structure was replaced by the current structure built in 2007.

26th Grey Cup played on December 10, 1938 at Varsity Stadium, Toronto.
Toronto Argonauts 30, Winnipeg Blue Bombers 7
http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_kevinp/2007_11_201938.jpg
http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_kevinp/2007_11_201938.jpg

What it looks like now:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2298/2502317484_4185f2a60d.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2298/2502317484_4185f2a60d.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2205/2148681161_ea0dbba9f6.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2205/2148681161_ea0dbba9f6.jpg?v=0

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll212/everything_bagel/P1050623.jpg
Courtesy of draconian at urbantoronto.

Autostade, Montreal, Canadian Football stadium
http://expo67.morenciel.com/loupe/claude_latour/L'Autostade.jpg
http://expo67.morenciel.com/loupe/claude_latour/L'Autostade.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2001/2389966502_db0120677d_o.png
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2001/2389966502_db0120677d_o.png

WeimieLvr

January 23rd, 2009, 11:47 AM

Ponce de Leon Park, 1924-1965...home of Atlanta Crackers baseball

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/502516151_2c16ad6430.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedjones/502516151/

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/502457698_3d2255e76c.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedjones/502457698/in/set-72157594313164449/

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/260981891_360512b8c2.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedjones/260981891/in/set-72157594313164449/

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Ponce_de_Leon_Park.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ponce_de_Leon_Park.JPG

Ganis

January 31st, 2009, 10:48 PM

Pick up your memories!

http://www.dallasnews.com/video/dallasnews/hp/index.html?nvid=327223&shu=1

Ganis

February 25th, 2009, 03:26 AM

Texas Stadiums Final Days :cry:

http://www.dallasnews.com/video/dallasnews/hp/index.html?nvid=335650&shu=1

www.sercan.de

February 26th, 2009, 01:21 PM

More pics of Taksim Stadi
(posted some pics before at page 7, post 161)

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1970/gokhanasgultaksimkislas.jpg

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1093/ofaltuntastaksimstadi19.jpg

Yattara

February 26th, 2009, 01:31 PM

Ali Sami Yen

Will be demolished in Summer

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/1/14/Erdem_Istanbul_28.jpg

wearethefuture

February 27th, 2009, 03:54 AM

Shea Stadium, New York (NY Mets)
Opened; April 17, 1964 - Closed; September 28, 2008 (Final game)
Capacity; 57,333

1>http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2646734197_e0baee16a0.jpg2>http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2183/1594745377_8ed7a20629.jpg

1: How Shea Stadium looked when it was brand new. 2: Shea Stadium alongside its new predecessor CitiField.

1>http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3593/3305319204_d95d185088.jpg2>http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3632/3309590283_d07e67f5a7.jpg

1: How the site looked a couple of weeks ago. 2: How it looks now.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/2641009853_5099bef246_b.jpg

Being replaced with CitiField > http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=331487

wearethefuture

February 27th, 2009, 04:19 AM

Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff, Wales (Replaced with the Millennium Stadium)
Opened; 1881 (Renovated; 1912, 1934, 1956, 1984)
Closed; 27 April 1997 (Demolished; 1997)
Capacity; 65,000 (1984) & 53,000 (1997)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2933996189_7d481f52d4_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/2704152709_edb2b579fc_b.jpg

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/2510840527_02da71154d_b.jpg

Part of the old stadium stand supports remain; "The main contractors for the Millennium Stadium, Laing, hit problems immediately when the neighbouring rugby football club chose not to allow the demolition of a stand on its land to go ahead. This stand shared a party wall with the north stand of Cardiff Arms Park. One could not be demolished without demolishing the other. This decision forced major changes to the original design for the complex structure, affecting all the loadings that depended on the roof 's position."

http://welshrugbyblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/millenniumstadium1.jpg

Replaced with the Millennium Stadium (Above) > http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=200430

Bobby3

February 27th, 2009, 08:45 PM

Charlotte Coliseum, 1988-2007...

Probably not the place to discuss it, but this building was more than usable when it was destroyed. It sat 24,500 and actually made a profit (not many publicly held venues can say that).

It's demise came as a result of greed. An NBA team (the Hornets) left town when the public voted down a new arena, as to us, we'd just constructed one for this same man in 1986, while in 1996 NFL Panthers owner Jerry Richardson privately financed his own 73,000 seat STADIUM. This lead us to ask, if Richardson can build a stadium, why can't Shinn and Woolridge pool their money and build an arena?

To add insult to public injury, the city council pushed through a new publicly funded arena to house a team that's chicken-fried sh*t against the will of the public. It seats 5,000 less for NBA events (yes, less) but it has skyboxes! (Which most people in Charlotte can't dream of affording.)

Kind of makes me feel ill.

lpioe

March 14th, 2009, 01:05 PM

I found a very interesting blog with old stadiums in Spain:
http://camposmiticos.blogspot.com/
Some examples:

Les Corts (FC Barcelona 1922-1957):
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cRr59vtsRfE/SV7HPWrMmYI/AAAAAAAAAuo/fFE71ZRKTSc/s1600/00acabadogasa.JPG
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cRr59vtsRfE/SV7HdnOSg2I/AAAAAAAAAuw/-fb9D8vSbH0/s1600/00acabadogasa.JPG

Sarrià (RCD Espanyol 1923-1997):
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cRr59vtsRfE/SVbh_bManwI/AAAAAAAAAo0/RFvz1C9lltg/s1600/01sarria01.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cRr59vtsRfE/SVpbw-gDiKI/AAAAAAAAAro/zcqTkA4g69o/s1600/00acabadogasa.JPG

Chamartin (Real Madrid 1924-1947):
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cRr59vtsRfE/SbAXRgJOYWI/AAAAAAAABjs/k0ykjeznOHg/s1600/00barca1yj5.jpg

Metropolitano (Atlético Madrid 1923-1966 ):
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cRr59vtsRfE/SVllsLTm0RI/AAAAAAAAAqs/mAXeu2KtdRM/s1600/00acabadogasa.JPG

wearethefuture

March 14th, 2009, 02:40 PM

^^ Good find. There's a really good website for old demolished stadiums and stands for British teams at;
http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk.

http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk/basebal3.jpg
Baseball Ground (Derby County FC, 1894 -1997)

http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk/theden1.jpg
The Den (Millwall FC, 1910 - 1993)

Ganis

March 26th, 2009, 03:40 AM

Moving Tom Landry from his perch in front of Texas Stadium so he can be moved to his new home in front of the New Stadium

http://www.dallascowboys.com/multimedia/multimedia_center.cfm?id=2536B454-05DD-2430-4F27EFAB0CEDF40C

WestSideJohn

March 27th, 2009, 05:19 AM

The old Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York USA is being demolished.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3421/3377931264_3d9eb4d970_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3563/3377931726_e1d066c1e0_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3566/3377115217_66cb61daeb_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3610/3377928814_0bdb649bc1_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3453/3377112963_47f2c4ddeb_o.jpg

limerickguy

March 28th, 2009, 05:56 PM

Irish stadiums replaced in the past number of years

Thomond park Limerick City, capacity 12,500
http://www.munsterrugby.ie/images/news/musgrave-park.jpg

new Thomond Park, capacity 26,500
http://croom.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/thomond-park-from-lit1.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3111/2634065664_ae4dd02f57.jpg?v=0

gaelic grounds Limerick city, 30,000
(sorry for no pics)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fayiAfDvzgM

new gaelic grounds, 50,000 (first 38 secs of video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUK--No2F6s&NR=1

http://www.setanta.com/Global/Images/sport/gaa/Grounds/GaelicGrounds480.jpg[img]

Lansdowne road 49,000 (36,000 all seated)
[img]http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/ireland/dublin_lansdowne1.jpg

new lansdowne 50,000
http://irish.rugbynow.net/static/images/entries/2004_01_24_lansdowne.jpg

fidalgo

March 28th, 2009, 06:36 PM

Old Sporting CP stadium

1956 - inauguration day
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp42/fidalgo1986/SSC/inauguraoestdio.jpg

2002? before demolished
http://www.forumscp.com/wiki/images/thumb/e/e5/Est%C3%A1dio_Jos%C3%A9_Alvalade_.jpg/500px-Est%C3%A1dio_Jos%C3%A9_Alvalade_.jpg

Kapow32

March 29th, 2009, 12:39 AM

Ebbets Field - Old Brooklyn Dodgers, the facade screams old-school baseball

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/past/ebbets1.jpg

http://www.dugout-memories.com/goffebb1.jpg

Old Comiskey Park - Chicago White Sox

http://flyingsock.com/OldComiskey/50smaingate.jpg

http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/SAI/R401%7EOld-Comiskey-Park-Chicago-Posters.jpg

Chicago Stadium - Chicago Bulls, Blackhawks

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fw7iF68JR8k/R50gCxWWRsI/AAAAAAAAKNg/G1zYp8516wg/s400/ChicagoStadium09.jpg

http://www.insidearenas.com/past/chicagostd.jpg

Ganis

March 31st, 2009, 07:15 PM

Dallas Cowboys hand over Texas Stadium keys to Irving officials
11:42 AM CT
12:06 PM CDT on Tuesday, March 31, 2009

By BRANDON FORMBY / The Dallas Morning News
bformby@dallasnews.com

Today marked another "end of an era" at Texas Stadium.

In a brief ceremony, stadium general manager Bruce Hardy handed over the keys to Robert Power, who was Irving's mayor when the Dallas Cowboys announced their move to the city in the late 1960s.

Irving Mayor Herbert Gears was also on hand for the ceremony, marking the Cowboys' departure to palatial new digs in Arlington.

"It’s a tough day," said Hardy, who has worked for about 25 years at Irving’s most famous landmark.

The Cowboys were packing up some last-minute things from the administrative offices as they finalized their move

The city of Irving will change the locks at Texas Stadium and secure the site, as plans are wrapped up for tearing the structure down. Last week, a contract was awarded to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to plan the demolition.

The city wants the site cleared by August 2010.

DART is building a light-rail line through Irving that will connect Dallas to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. A rail station is planned on the stadium site.

Until a viable redevelopment project for the site comes forward, however, the city is leasing the site to the Texas Department of Transportation.

That agency is already using it as a staging area for its massive $518 million project dubbed the Diamond Interchange. The project will renovate the highways surrounding the stadium and make room for DART’s Orange Line.

Irving Mayor Herbert Gears said TxDOT plans to use cement from the stadium in its reconstruction of the surrounding highways.

“There’ll be little specs of Texas Stadium all around here,” Gears said.

One of the city’s first tasks will be to inventory everything left in the stadium. Most of the furniture will be donated to the Salvation Army. Whatever items the city can’t use — including several thousand unsold stadium seats — will then be auctioned off. But fans seeking memorabilia shouldn’t get their hopes up. The items, including the seats, will be sold in bulk on the wholesale market.

On Tuesday, the stadium bore little resemblance to the revered building seen for decades on Monday Night Football and in the opening credits of television drama Dallas. A sea of gray concrete now blankets the stadium floor. Several thousand seats have been pulled out and sold to fans.

Couches, tables and chairs were stacked wall-to-wall in the shower area of the Cowboys’ locker room. Players’ lockers were gone.

Concession stands sat bare. Suites were emptied of furniture and televisions. The Stadium Club was little more than a sea of blue carpet broken up by rows of mirrored support columns.

The administrative office walls, once covered with concert posters and photographs from famous shows held at the stadium, were empty save one image of the stadium.

Hardy, Gears and Power stood in front of that image as Hardy handed over the key.

“It’s sad,” Power said, “but I’m glad what we had projected turned out to be true.”

More at...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/033109dnmetstadium.8c60ba3f.html

Jim856796

April 1st, 2009, 12:10 AM

First we plan to tear down Texas stadium, but preserve its roof. Now plans have changed and Texas Stadium gets torn down with its roof.

Looks like you might as well implode this stadium. There's no point in preserving its roof now since it's gonna collapse if unsupported and I still don't know how it is structurally independent from the stands covered by the roof.

igormaverick

April 1st, 2009, 02:09 AM

Very nice architecture

Ganis

April 1st, 2009, 02:52 AM

Nothing about the stadium will be preserved. Everyone has known that for the past 2 years. stop dreaming Jim.

Jim856796

April 1st, 2009, 12:41 PM

I am NOT dreaming. I heard that news on Wikipedia, which I hate.

Ganis

April 1st, 2009, 09:28 PM

I heard that news on Wikipedia

there in lies the problem

Jim856796

April 2nd, 2009, 12:59 AM

Flarg it, I say we implode both Texas Stadium and the Reunion Arena.

By the way, the demolition of the Reunion Arena should have began in March. The demolition will go as follows: The utilies will be disconnected. The concession areas, the arena's scoreboard, and other large equipment will be salvaged. The roof and other salvageable steel would be removed. If any portion of the arena remains, that portion will be imploded.

KingmanIII

April 4th, 2009, 05:55 PM

parcdesprinces

April 4th, 2009, 07:09 PM

Paris (Colombes), Old Olympic Stadium (Stade Yves du Manoir)
Cap: approx. 68,000 (actual cap. 7,000 seats)
Opening: 1907 (ren. 1924 & 1938)
Olympics: 1924
FIFA World Cup Final: 1938
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3653/stade11copie.jpg
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2470/stade13copie.jpg
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9582/stade17copie.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7519/stade12copie.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/1136/fil3835copie.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2125/stade24copie.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2185/stade27copie.jpg
Actual Stadium
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9867/colombes21pelousetribun.jpg
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8108/colombes1blogcopie.jpg
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7893/colombesdepuistribunebl.jpg

Paris, Old Parc des Princes
Cap: approx. 45,000
opening: 1897 (ren. 1932, dem. 1970)
UEFA Euro Final: 1960
UEFA Champions League Final: 1956.
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5315/fil3704copie.jpg
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7862/image2qsf.jpg
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9052/fil3666copie.jpg
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2730/image1xtb.jpg
Actual Stadium
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5590/parispsg47480copie.jpg
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7100/image3copie.jpg

wearethefuture

April 5th, 2009, 02:43 AM

Some very interesting posts, nice work. I have also noticed the thread title has been changed (quite rightly). So here's a lost stand;

Trinity Road Stand, Villa Park (Aston Villa FC), Birmingham, England (All info and pics taken straight from oldgrounds.co.uk);
The Trinity Road Stand that was built in 1924. The fans in the upper tier of this stand, used to stamp their feet in unison on the wooden floor in order to get behind their team. The stand was demolished in 2001.

http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk/villa2.jpg
The Rear Entrance To The Stand & The Famous Facade

http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk/trinity30.jpg

http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk/trinity33.jpg

http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk/trinity31.jpg
The Amazing Exterior of the Archibald Leitch Classic.

Replaced With;
http://www.freewebs.com/tims92/Aston%20Villa/Villa%20Park%2015.jpg

arsmoriendi

April 5th, 2009, 08:04 AM

4 years ago was demoload the stadium where was played the first official match in Romania (year 1899) - Astra Stadium Arad. (I could not find a bigger picture)

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1140/827705.jpg

Instead of building a new stadium, it was preferable to build a commercial complex.

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9672/200902020167zj2.jpg

micrip

April 5th, 2009, 09:22 AM

Memorial Stadium under construction in 1953

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/micrip/memconst.gif

...late 80's after many alterations.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/micrip/mem.jpg

Beginning of demo in 2001. Facade has been stripped.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/micrip/memstadiumdemolition.jpg

Looking in from outfield. Most of stands are gone.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/micrip/memdemo.jpg

Memorial wall was all that was left. That came down eventually and the famous letters reused in a memorial between the downtown stadiums.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/micrip/memstadframe0128.jpg

NeilF

April 5th, 2009, 12:19 PM

new lansdowne 50,000
http://irish.rugbynow.net/static/images/entries/2004_01_24_lansdowne.jpg

For correctness, this is the render for New Lansdowne Road / Aviva Stadium:

http://www.burohappold.com/BH/Gallery/ProjSpecMain/PRJ_SPEC_MN_lansdowne_road_stadium_1%C2%AC01.jpg

The one you included is an earlier render before the complexities of shadows cast at the North end of the stadium were fully known.

Zeno2

April 5th, 2009, 01:21 PM

Le Stade Vélodrome De Rocourt (42.000).

The club, Royal FC Liégeois, one of the oldest clubs in Belgium - founded in 1892 (!) - went bankrupt in the early 90's. The stadium was demolished in 1995 and replaced by a Kinepolis cinema complex :

http://www.rfcliege.be/historique/Pages/images/Stades/Rocourt/Rocourt-mythique.jpg

http://www.rfcliege.be/historique/Pages/images/Stades/Rocourt/stadroc5.jpg

http://www.rfcliege.be/historique/Pages/images/Stades/Rocourt/stadroc1.jpg

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1191/velaercol.th.jpg (http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=velaercol.jpg)

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/1755/rocourtkl4po.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rocourtkl4po.jpg)

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3140/rocourt20wu.th.jpg (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rocourt20wu.jpg)

Rocourt as of today :
http://www.kinepolis.com/sharedMedia/media/_avisuals/200x112/kinliege.jpg

Jim856796

April 6th, 2009, 12:50 AM

No, I am not converting another indoor arena into a church. Plans have already been finalised for the demolition of the arena.

www.sercan.de

April 21st, 2009, 04:00 PM

old Stamford Bridge
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/jpchelseafc/OldStamfordBridge/scan3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/jpchelseafc/OldStamfordBridge/scan4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/jpchelseafc/OldStamfordBridge/1472221049_d406fcaa47_o.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/jpchelseafc/OldStamfordBridge/2533159670048266056qyDDqi_fs.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/jpchelseafc/Chelsea%20Pics/Shed_demolished_3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/jpchelseafc/Chelsea%20Pics/East_Stand2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/jpchelseafc/Chelsea%20Pics/West_Stand.jpg

parcdesprinces

April 21st, 2009, 05:07 PM

Old Stamford Bridge:
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1039/010268369300200.jpg

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Old Hampden Park:
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6609/fil2883copie.jpg

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3460/vcopie.jpg

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Old Ibrox Park:
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/395/fil2937copie.jpg

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3254/fil13920copie.jpg

Demetrius

April 22nd, 2009, 12:02 PM

Paris (Colombes), Old Olympic Stadium (Stade Yves du Manoir)
Cap: approx. 68,000 (actual cap. 7,000 seats)
Opening: 1907 (ren. 1924 & 1938)
Olympics: 1924
FIFA World Cup Final: 1938
Actual Stadium
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9867/colombes21pelousetribun.jpg
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8108/colombes1blogcopie.jpg
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7893/colombesdepuistribunebl.jpg

Sorry if I don't get it right, but Colombes (or at least a part of it) still exists? :uh:

I thought it was completely gone forever!

parcdesprinces

April 22nd, 2009, 01:37 PM

Sorry if I don't get it right, but Colombes (or at least a part of it) still exists? :uh:

I thought it was completely gone forever!

^^ You're right, the main stand (7,000 seats) and a part of endzone stands still exists. It's still the home of Racing Club de France's rugby team but this team has just decided to build a new stadium (32,000 seats with rectractable roof) near La Défense district and sadly the old olympic stadium will certainly be destroyed, a new indoor arena will maybe be built on the site.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8176/colombes13premieresblog.jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8108/colombes1blogcopie.jpg
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5267/e2ead7b5ffjpgcopie.jpg

Next summer, a temporary stand (8,000 seats) will be built for the promotion of the team to the Rugby Union's Top 14 (first league).

Lampiao2000

May 17th, 2009, 11:34 PM

More pictures of the old Stadium of Light

1953
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/3672/1953.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1953.jpg)

1960
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5002/1960q.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1960q.jpg)

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/4601/luz3anel5960.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=luz3anel5960.jpg)

Lampiao2000

May 17th, 2009, 11:40 PM

Pictures from old tickets

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5475/bilhete3.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bilhete3.jpg)

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/3164/bilhete6.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bilhete6.jpg)

Eagle, our simbol

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2624/bilhete5.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bilhete5.jpg)

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7439/13807e.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=13807e.jpg)

Statue of Eusébio, Benfica and Portugal greatest player

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7897/bilhete2.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bilhete2.jpg)

Lampiao2000

May 17th, 2009, 11:42 PM

From Onze Mundial Magazine

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2037/estadiodaluznaonzemundi.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=estadiodaluznaonzemundi.jpg)

Benfica-Anderlecht, UEFA Cup final

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1769/benficaanderlechtfinalt.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=benficaanderlechtfinalt.jpg)

WMS

May 18th, 2009, 02:39 AM

Stadion X-lecia
Warsaw
capacity 100 000

http://fotoforum.gazeta.pl/photo/0/qi/lc/ivwz/NIWSf7kuuaAmZtpqvX.jpg
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/6383/stadionyd7.jpg
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/4/4072/z4072714Z.jpg

http://static1.money.pl/i/galeria/27/30/11035.jpg
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/8/5797/z5797288Z.jpg

in 2011 (capacity 55 000)
http://www.fakteo.pl/obrazki/1239864716_32.jpg

ReiAyanami

May 20th, 2009, 12:53 AM

I made a rather amazing discovery ! (Only for the stadium addicts, that is :))

Ok here we go: I found, using google earth, a training ground of Olympiakos FC, in a place called "Renti", in Athens, a rather downrun industrialized place, here its a photo :

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/4659/olympiacostraininggroun.jpg

And I found in a Greek forum http://www.stadia.gr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=548&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25how the place looked before the recent makeover done by Olympiakos, the old training ground
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a63/vag3721/stadia/RentiOld.jpg

Amazingly, those were the remains of a stadium designed for the team in the 60s with a capacity of 120.000 !!! The construction stopped during the dictatorship (1967-1974) and never started again! Only part of the first tier was ever build, and after years of neglect, it finally assumed the role of a training ground, before its final demolition a few years ago...
http://www.stadia.gr/karaiskaki/olympiakos.html
http://www.stadia.gr/karaiskaki/rendiold1.jpg

wearethefuture

September 23rd, 2009, 01:37 AM

Any stadiums bitten the dust recently?

Only one i can think of is Ninian Park (Cardiff City FC), which had a reputation of having a loud and intimidating atmosphere; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninian_Park

OPO.RVK

September 23rd, 2009, 04:27 PM

Before Dragao , the FC Porto Stadium was the Estadio das Antas.
(Here are the links, because of my inability to post pictures).
Ennjoy

Inauguration : May 1952

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vUAL8ixKwJ4/R0mRf9ijFwI/AAAAAAAAAZA/DxEG0kZjdFU/s1600-h/antas.jpg

Aerial in the 50’s
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NrSK1onL2Lc/Scqfdza6gtI/AAAAAAAAESE/67UWLzJ0xWA/s400/Antas+1950.jpg

In 1986 the stadium was extended putting the field in a lower level extending capacity
Beginning of works
http://media.photobucket.com/image/estadio%20das%20Antas/pobodonorte/varios/rebaixa.jpg

After several modifications, the look before the demolishion.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rifer/121216367/

Field invasion in 1992 in the last game of the season ( Celebrating the title)
http://crazymotion.net/invasao-de-campo-no-estadio-das-antas-video-completo/wJzyUjXoN4SkjAy.html

One of the Main stands
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/2860035.jpg

Another view:
http://img167.imageshack.us/i/wallestadiodasantasjp6.jpg/#q=estadio%20das%20Antas

The new stadium it’s located where you see sand field.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_tAIw4wqnJx4/RktMVW20hjI/AAAAAAAAAjs/N-2Z5ZOXt2c/s1600-h/Antas.jpg

Mostly demolished with a sight of the new one
http://media.photobucket.com/image/estadio%20das%20Antas/pobodonorte/varios/antas_2.jpg

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_O8NEhbiXiI8/R6M3FZfEOEI/AAAAAAAAAMs/Ye-duxDH0iU/19-EAntas-demolicao.JPG

Substitute by this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rifer/121216404/in/photostream/

in this old google image you can see the different locations:
http://www.360portugal.com/Distritos.QTVR/Porto.VR/vilas.cidades/Porto/a15Estadio-Dragao.jpg

Tiny image, but explanatory:
http://www.miragens.abola.pt/getImage.aspx?id=876&width=280&height=212&color=000000

jean1991

September 24th, 2009, 05:15 AM

Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, United States finally got demolished today...sad day for baseball

Igor Munarim

October 16th, 2009, 02:50 PM

Topic reserved for discussions and posting pictures of Stadiums and Arenas that were demolished.

Delle Alpi (Torino, Italy)
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7501/dellealpi11024x768.jpg

Igor Munarim

October 16th, 2009, 03:01 PM

Wembley (London, England)
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8618/wembley2.jpg
http://www.stadionwelt.de/

Marin Mostar

October 16th, 2009, 03:20 PM

This will be excelent thread.

Igor Munarim

October 16th, 2009, 03:30 PM

Anyone who has pictures Stadiums Arenas demolished or put in this segment.

Igor Munarim

October 16th, 2009, 03:37 PM

Highbury Park (London, England)
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/7334/highburyuefaa.jpg
http://www.uefa.com/

Maine Road (Manchester, England)
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1351/maineroad3.jpg
http://www.footballgroundz.co.uk/

Igor Munarim

October 16th, 2009, 03:49 PM

Omni Coliseum (Atlanta, USA)
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/428/omnicoliseum.gif

Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, USA)
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7286/atl09950.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Afcsimplosion.jpg

Igor Munarim

October 16th, 2009, 10:20 PM

Atlanta Fulton County Stadium Demolition - Video

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mvictory

October 17th, 2009, 07:26 AM

Waverley Park Melbourne. 70,000
http://australianrulesfootball.com.au/system/images//Stadiums/vfl%20park.jpg

Jim856796

November 20th, 2009, 06:47 AM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Reunion_Arena.jpg

The Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas has passed away last Tuesday in a controlled demolition.

alex_zebe

November 20th, 2009, 06:54 AM

^^ Why? The arena looks new, if you're talking about the one in the pic.

Dorocka

November 20th, 2009, 12:07 PM

what a pity about athletic track, a great stadium if without that!!

Delle Alpi (Torino, Italy)
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7501/dellealpi11024x768.jpg

Jim856796

November 21st, 2009, 04:29 AM

^^ Why? The arena looks new, if you're talking about the one in the pic.

New? The arena was built in 1980.

wearethefuture

November 21st, 2009, 05:13 AM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Reunion_Arena.jpg

The Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas has passed away last Tuesday in a controlled demolition.

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PS: Can the mod please change this title to "Lost / Demolished Arenas, Stadiums or Stands" please :)

www.sercan.de

December 2nd, 2009, 02:28 PM

minneapolis-uptown

December 5th, 2009, 06:36 AM

Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington:
http://twinstrivia.com/images/Met%20stadium%204.jpg

http://twinstrivia.com/images/Met%20stadium%208.jpg

It was demolished to build the Mall of America, which has a couple of things left from the stadium

http://snoopy.cmagic.com/moa4big.jpg

and a seat in it's original place. the gray thing in the foreground is the log chute ride
http://www.ebaseballparks.com/images/metropolitan4.JPG

KingmanIII

December 5th, 2009, 05:12 PM

Highbury Park (London, England)
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/7334/highburyuefaa.jpg

Highbury wasn't demolished...

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/project/uploaded_files/10219_Highbury7main.jpg
http://www.urban-logic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/General-view-of-the-garde-004.jpg

Quintana

December 6th, 2009, 01:08 PM

Part of it is actually.

mrakbaseball

December 19th, 2009, 03:14 AM

Here's a site about the ongoing demolition of the real Yankee Stadium in New York. Home of the Yankees from 1923-1973 and 1976-2008. Unreal :ohno:
Yankee Stadium demolition (http://www.demolitionofyankeestadium.com)

desertpunk

December 19th, 2009, 04:28 AM

Waddya gonna do?

mrakbaseball

December 21st, 2009, 01:24 AM

Waddya gonna do?

Well, I can and have critiqued the new one. Unimpressed.

th0m

December 21st, 2009, 10:04 AM

What happened between '73 and '76?

The Game Is Up

December 21st, 2009, 10:17 AM

^^The Gerald Ford Administration? ;)

westsidebomber

December 21st, 2009, 06:35 PM

What happened between '73 and '76?

The stadium was closed while they did a major renovation. The Yankees played at Shea Stadium (home of the Mets until Citi Field opened last season) during that time.

Here's how it looked from 1923-1973...
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b158/GKreindler/1957.jpg

Here's a good view of the renovation...
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m124/coinboynyc/NYYprogram-1975-04-08-7-p52-Yank-1.jpg

And Here's how it looked until the bitter end...
http://www.launchphotography.com/Yankee_Stadium_panorama_2.jpg

Dimethyltryptamine

December 21st, 2009, 09:56 PM

disregard this post. ;)

krudmonk

December 21st, 2009, 11:35 PM

Place looked way better pre-renovation. Now it's not such a loss. I hated that stupid light blue they had everywhere.

aus16

December 21st, 2009, 11:47 PM

how did they support the stands when they removed the collumns in the 70's

danVan

December 22nd, 2009, 02:47 AM

Wait, so the new stadium isn't real???

I thought they played last season there, or was it an illusion??

westsidebomber

December 22nd, 2009, 06:12 AM

how did they support the stands when they removed the collumns in the 70's

They added something like 10 rows onto the back of the upper-deck and used that added weight along with tension cables to counterbalance the rest of the weight. Sounds very unstable, but it held up for 30+ years with tens of thousands of people on a nightly basis!

Here's a cross-section of how exactly they did it.

http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=50179&stc=1&d=1219279885

You can really see it in the picture taken during the renovation.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2749/4054682106_34378fd7ef_o.jpg

Wait, so the new stadium isn't real???

I thought they played last season there, or was it an illusion??

The last season for the old stadium was 2008. The Yankees moved into the new stadium for the 2009 season across the street. The old stadium is slowly being demolished. The new stadium is very much real...this thread is about the demolition of the old stadium, one of the most legendary sports venues in the entire world.

Also, here's a great photoshop somebody did on http://baseball-fever.com with 1/2 pre renovation and 1/2 post renovation.

http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=53501&stc=1&d=1224284095

Sorry for kinda diverting from the original topic, I've just always been fascinated by the old Yankee Stadium and the whole renovation process...very cool!

mrakbaseball

December 30th, 2009, 04:57 AM

The real Yankee Stadium's lack of luxury suites, club seats, restaurants, retail space etc. doomed it, sealed its fate. The fact that the Yankees led all of MLB in attendance, total revenue, and had the highest payroll despite playing their home games at the real Yankee Stadium meant nothing to the owners. The new fake Yankee Stadium is so generic and bland. Very sterile. :ohno:

Dexter Morgan

December 30th, 2009, 06:04 AM

Well, I can and have critiqued the new one. Unimpressed.

It's better than Safeco.

The Game Is Up

December 30th, 2009, 06:11 AM

The real Yankee Stadium's lack of luxury suites, club seats, restaurants, retail space etc. doomed it, sealed its fate.

Because they wanted to cater to the people who actually fund their payrolls: the corporate and business clients. Not to mention they wanted a little more "margin of error" in case the Steinbrenners wanted to chase the next Hideki Matsui.

The fact that the Yankees led all of MLB in attendance, total revenue, and had the highest payroll despite playing their home games at the real Yankee Stadium meant nothing to the owners. The new fake Yankee Stadium is so generic and bland. Very sterile. :ohno:You should realize by now that the average fans account for only a smaller and smaller percentage of the folks who actually contribute to the Yankee payroll. But for a long time, these same people bought the illusion that they were the main ones responsible for putting the money into the Yankee payroll. That was true up to the 1980s. The famous MSG contract they signed in those days was the beginning of the big change. Soon after, TV and other non-stadium revenues became more important to the financial health of the ballclub, so much so that they reached that point of being able to stop caring about every concern of the long-time fans and walk-up ticket buyers. Then the Baltimore stadium happened and Big George began to get jealous (yes! jealous of Baltimore, of all places) of that stadium's capacity to capture skybox and club revenues beyond what was normal in those days. That was the real beginning of the end for the (real) Yankee Stadium. It was then a matter of time before politics, money and timing converged to make the switch happen.

This is the order of importance the Yankees give to their customers these days:

1. Members of the Steinbrenner family; close friends and associates of the Yankee organization; MLB officials
2. Highest-paying corporate clients
3. Other paying corporate clients
4. Celebrities and other hangers-on that the Yankees use to further their image
5. Retired and former players of the Yankees
6. City and governmental officials who they need to keep on their good side
7. Club seat and party suite season tickets buyers, by order of seniority
8. Full-season ticket buyers in the other sections of the stadium, by order of seniority
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99. Us regular joes

But the worst part is that most of the ones who really matter to the Yankees didn't care. They paid good money and didn't mind the creature comforts (and I don't mean Bleacher Creatures). That's why there was no massive movement to save the (real) Stadium. I knew it the day that it was announced. Oh, yes, some did fight hard against it but they were up against the twin pillars of public apathy and enthusiasm from the politicians.

Anyway, I've said enough on this issue. I think you get the idea how it happened.

LosAngelesSportsFan

December 30th, 2009, 07:22 AM

ya im shocked they are tearing that place down. Any effort to replace Dodger stadium has been met with ridiculous negativity.

JYDA

December 30th, 2009, 09:53 PM

This is an awesome piece on the premium seats in new yankee stadium and why they struggled to sell. The answer is less obvious and more interesting than you'd think.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=091005yankeestickets

DudyMako

December 31st, 2009, 06:22 AM

Wait, so the new stadium isn't real???

I thought they played last season there, or was it an illusion??

The last game they played there was in 2008.

I'm actually happy about the new Stadium, it's really nice.

SouthPaw

December 31st, 2009, 08:40 AM

this ruined my grand baseball stadium tour i was planning. Sad to see it go.

Bobby3

December 31st, 2009, 05:48 PM

The original one was better. You can feel the history it had from the pictures alone.

Dexter Morgan

December 31st, 2009, 08:20 PM

The original one was better. You can feel the history it had from the pictures alone.

New Stadium made a hell of a lot of history in year 1.

ryebreadraz

December 31st, 2009, 08:52 PM

New Stadium made a hell of a lot of history in year 1.

The team made history. The old stadium wasn't the greatest, but I always wanted to go back and see it again. The new one I'll go back to, but to watch baseball and not the stadium. I think Citi is actually better.

Dexter Morgan

December 31st, 2009, 11:18 PM

The team made history. The old stadium wasn't the greatest, but I always wanted to go back and see it again. The new one I'll go back to, but to watch baseball and not the stadium. I think Citi is actually better.

Teams make the history in the stadium, remember that.

Yankee Stadium is for watching a baseball game and taking in Yankee history, Citi Field is for people who want to walk around and enjoy activities, baseball is an afterthought in Citi Field.

IMO.

westsidebomber

December 31st, 2009, 11:35 PM

Why was this thread renamed? I thought it was perfectly acceptable to have a standalone thread for the demolition of Yankee Stadium. Can a mod explain?

ephraim58

January 1st, 2010, 02:54 AM

Why was this thread renamed? I thought it was perfectly acceptable to have a standalone thread for the demolition of Yankee Stadium. Can a mod explain?
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YEAH!

kennerado

January 2nd, 2010, 02:20 PM

Melbourne Cricket Ground over the years.

1864:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/MCG-1864.JPG

1878:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Mcg_1878.jpg

1945:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/VFL_Grand_Final_in_1945_at_the_MCG.jpg

Showing the old Ponsford, Members and Olympic stands before redevelopment:

http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/3/34/Mcg_internal_odi_medium.jpg

Ariel shot before the Northern side redevelopment:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/MCG_stadium.jpg

Stadium after redevelopment, how it looks today:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/CG-MelbCricketGround-Pano.jpg

Old MSG

January 2nd, 2010, 03:11 PM

Does anyone have pictures of the old Madison Square Garden on 50th and 8th ave inside and out?
Also pictures of the old Garden's demolition?

Thank you!

mrakbaseball

January 6th, 2010, 03:54 AM

It's better than Safeco.

I disagree. I have a feeling you have never set foot at either place. Safeco is better than the NYS because scenes like this never happen at beautiful Safeco Field.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3617/3676088701_451577497d_o.jpg

I like the fact that at Safeco Field, you are guaranteed to see a game on-time in dry outdoor conditions. Not the case at NYS. :banana:

mrakbaseball

January 8th, 2010, 03:49 AM

en1044

January 8th, 2010, 06:14 AM

I disagree. I have a feeling you have never set foot at either place. Safeco is better than the NYS because scenes like this never happen at beautiful Safeco Field.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3617/3676088701_451577497d_o.jpg

I like the fact that at Safeco Field, you are guaranteed to see a game on-time in dry outdoor conditions. Not the case at NYS. :banana:

Well as much as I dont like NYS, i dont think that the fact that one experiences rain delays and the other means that one is better than the other. The Astrodome never had rain delays and its far from the best.

aus16

January 8th, 2010, 08:34 AM

actually a game at the astrodome was once washed out because of rain outside

Dexter Morgan

January 8th, 2010, 09:35 AM

In fact i have been to Safeco Field. 2x, I've also had a season ticket plan at Yankee Stadium for over 20 years, but what do I know...

Tropicana Field and it's dome is better than Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, Camden Yards, PNC Field, ect...

http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/tb/images/ballpark/y2007/panoramic_581x386.jpg

and what are the Twins thinking? Why would that want to move out of this gem!

http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/Photos/Metrodome.jpg

/sarcasm

Dexter Morgan

January 8th, 2010, 09:41 AM

Another reason that Seattle's Safeco Field is better than Yankee Mallpark is there isn't a restaurant blocking the views of bleacher seats where you have to rely on wall-mounted monitors to view the game. Very thankful for Safeco Field.

Those area's with an obstructed view are in a concentrated area, and are only $5 dollars a pop. You know before you buy them their is an obstruction. Their are approximately 600 seats effected, some better than others.

Dexter Morgan

January 8th, 2010, 09:49 AM

Safeco Field has it's share of obstructed views.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jn2ZcsQklM8/SphWB19c3-I/AAAAAAAAC9w/rt27v4esQCw/s800/IMG_0814.JPG

westsidebomber

January 8th, 2010, 11:53 PM

Safeco Field has it's share of obstructed views.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jn2ZcsQklM8/SphWB19c3-I/AAAAAAAAC9w/rt27v4esQCw/s800/IMG_0814.JPG

Except that's not Safeco Field, that's Angel Stadium

kennerado

January 9th, 2010, 12:37 AM

Isn't there a huge problem with Tropicana field because of the catwalks on the roof?

en1044

January 9th, 2010, 02:52 PM

Isn't there a huge problem with Tropicana field because of the catwalks on the roof?

Yes, from time to time balls can hit off of the catwalks.

Definitely not how baseball is meant to be played.

fidalgo

February 4th, 2010, 02:08 PM

Old Estádio da Luz (Benfica), without 3rd tier (built later)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mErcwh3sfwg/S2qquaQ9tPI/AAAAAAAAAqs/O4kijtgEYMY/s400/est%C3%A1dio%20da%20luz.jpg
bigger (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mErcwh3sfwg/S2qquaQ9tPI/AAAAAAAAAqs/O4kijtgEYMY/s1600-h/est%C3%A1dio%20da%20luz.jpg)

parcdesprinces

February 4th, 2010, 04:09 PM

^^ I've already seen that picture and the most surprising is that stadium was in the middle of nowhere at that time !

Lisbon has "a little bit" grown since the picture was taken ;) !

Dexter Morgan

February 4th, 2010, 08:46 PM

Giants Stadium demolition started today.

Jim856796

February 5th, 2010, 10:39 AM

What has the shortest lifespan of any dead sports facility? This excludes temporary venues used for the Olympic games or other sporting events.

mattec

February 7th, 2010, 09:41 PM

Tulane Stadium- New Orleans

"The Queen of Southern Stadiums"

home of the Sugar Bowl

Built in 1926
http://dpulling.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/tulane702.jpg

http://football.ballparks.com/NFL/NewOrleansSaints/oldaerial.jpg

http://football.ballparks.com/NFL/NewOrleansSaints/oldfront.jpg

Tulane, as well as the Saints played their last game at the stadium in 1974.

Demolished in 1979 - 1980

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3178023803_df3cc00730.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/TulaneStadiumRIP80.jpg

what's there now

http://www.tulane.edu/~housing/arrive/images/reshalls/aron_mainlg.gif

Today, there are hopes among Tulane fans and donors to build another, though smaller Tulane Stadium on campus and leave the Super Dome; however there is opposition from the surrounding community and some within the Tulane Administration.

KiwiBrit

February 8th, 2010, 07:21 PM

What was the capacity of the Tulane?

Bobby3

February 8th, 2010, 08:05 PM

Roughly 81,000

nyrmetros

February 9th, 2010, 06:51 AM

Does anyone have pictures of the old Madison Square Garden on 50th and 8th ave inside and out?
Also pictures of the old Garden's demolition?

Thank you!

I would love to see some pictures of MSG III

nyrmetros

February 9th, 2010, 07:25 AM

nyrmetros

February 9th, 2010, 07:27 AM

Teams make the history in the stadium, remember that.

Yankee Stadium is for watching a baseball game and taking in Yankee history, Citi Field is for people who want to walk around and enjoy activities, baseball is an afterthought in Citi Field.

IMO.

Yankee Stadium 1 and 1.5 were for watching a baseball game and taking in Yankee history. Yankee Stadium 2, along with Citi Field is for people who want to walk around and enjoy activities, baseball is an afterthought

twincarb1275

March 4th, 2010, 12:11 AM

Brewery Terrace on left, replaced by East Stand,
older Pontefract Road End replaced by a new single seater stand,
West stand on the right remains,
the Spion Kop where picture is taken replaced by north stand:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/10964588.jpg

Now:
East Stand, Corner Stand and Pontefract Road End(CK Bennett Stand):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/3094472340_6d3bf5d584_o.jpg

Looking towards North Stand with East Stand on the right:
http://www.footballgroundguide.com/barnsley/barnsley2.jpg

West Stand now:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/OwlsBoy/DSC00221.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3297/3439558214_ec46d0b0cc_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3576/3438747639_af9d066207_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/356343110_4f852a1d74_b.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/OwlsBoy/DSC00115.jpg

wearethefuture

March 4th, 2010, 02:52 AM

Nice post, i like Oakwell, real football ground. (although can you make the pics smaller please :))

Bogus Law

March 22nd, 2010, 06:07 PM

I've just read she'll be torn down on Sun, April 11th at 7 in the morning:
http://stadiony.net/news.php?n=1750

W.Y.B.A.

April 2nd, 2010, 12:34 PM

http://www.wafll.com/wafll-gallery/download.php?attachid=289&id=59

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/532852.jpg

Dexter Morgan

April 2nd, 2010, 09:30 PM

Video of Gate 2 at Yankee Stadium behind knocked down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z64bfXeSGIw&feature=player_embedded

Here is a gallery of photos of the demolition of Yankee Stadium.

http://www.jetsinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=191306

mrakbaseball

April 8th, 2010, 12:34 AM

Very unfortunate that Gate 2 wasn't preserved at the real Yankee Stadium. The new parkland will probably be littered with broken glass, used condoms and syringes in no time anyway.

bongo-anders

April 8th, 2010, 10:17 AM

The old D stand at Parken, Copenhagen

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp303/bongoanders/Dtribunen.jpg

The new and ugly one.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp303/bongoanders/DSC03923.jpg

Spikespiegel

April 8th, 2010, 10:36 AM

The new and ugly one.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp303/bongoanders/DSC03923.jpgIt's ugly, because it's covered in blue and yellow on that picture :)

All jokes aside, there is a meaning behind the madness.
There is too few football matches where the stadium was at full capacity, while the stadium would always be on full capacity for concerts. By building a new section with a lower capacity (and telescope seatings), you can get about the same revenue from the football games, but for the concerts, you can place the stage much farther back, greatly increasing the capacity.

Spikespiegel

April 8th, 2010, 11:18 AM

Just next to Parken, you will find the old Østerbro Stadium, which has been refurbished with completion last year. The new stadium will focus more on athetics and less on football, even though Divisional football will be played weekly on the center turf.

Old Stadium:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Oesterbro_Stadion_tribune.jpg

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm49/HamDerStampe/Osterbro%20Stadion-%20Skjold/DSC01005.jpg

New Stadium:
http://www.mangor-nagel.dk/wordpress/wp-content/c3b8sterbrostadion-602x376.jpg

http://www.mangor-nagel.dk/wordpress/wp-content/091007_%C3%B8broS02_small-570x380.jpg

bongo-anders

April 8th, 2010, 11:20 AM

I know the reason for the construction, but it is ugly nonetheless.

BTW. the ugly yellow/blue combination is Sweden´s colours and not the disgrase of danish football called Brøndby IF. :)

www.sercan.de

April 13th, 2010, 01:47 PM

bye bye Texas Stadium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JjV61zYRkE

Dexter Morgan

April 13th, 2010, 01:59 PM

Very unfortunate that Gate 2 wasn't preserved at the real Yankee Stadium. The new parkland will probably be littered with broken glass, used condoms and syringes in no time anyway.

It's 2010, not 1982.

alex_zebe

April 13th, 2010, 06:18 PM

The old Ion Moina (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=799074) from Cluj, now demolished and soon to be replaced by a modern stadium.
The first stadium in the city was built in 1911 and later was moved some 30 kilometers away to Campia Turzii. It is still used. A new stadium with a capacity of 30.000 places was built in its place in 1961, In 2008 it was decided to build a modern stadium for Cluj, thus the old stadium was demolished. The new stadium is U/C now and expected to be completed in the summer of 2011.

The 1911 stadium, now moved

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/8886/tribunaveche1cluj.jpghttp://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8697/tribunaveche2cluj.jpg

The 1961 stadium (28.000 places), now demolished

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8730/bingmoina4.png

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7639/bingmoina3.png

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6561/bingmoina2.png

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9362/bingmoina1.png

http://onlinesport.ro/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7018&d=1126856932

OnceBittenTwiceShy

April 14th, 2010, 09:11 PM

The 1911 stadium, now moved

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/8886/tribunaveche1cluj.jpg

There's an amazing resemblance with a rugby ground on Myreside, Edinburgh, Scotland. This main structure still stands, having been refurbished in 1993:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e50/MohamedAchmed/Rugby/MurrayField.jpg

Jim856796

April 24th, 2010, 01:10 AM

mrakbaseball

April 24th, 2010, 02:01 AM

During the demolition of Yankee Stadium, the stadium's gate 3 (the only portion of the original stadium to be left unaltered during the 1970s renovation of the stadium) was dismantled. it should have served as an entrance gate for the new heritage park that is going to be built on the stadium's former site. Might as well build Gate 3 from scratch.

You mean Gate 2.

what should have been done.
http://blog.nj.com/yankees_main/2009/05/large_park523.jpg

What was done. The Gate 2 portion of the old yard was the 1st exterior section, not counting the bleachers that was demolished. This was around the end of March.
http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2010_03_yankstadg2.jpg

chrisman123

May 25th, 2010, 03:54 AM

Thomond park Limerick City, capacity 12,500
http://www.munsterrugby.ie/images/news/musgrave-park.jpg

Thats Musgrave Park, not Thomond.

chrisman123

May 25th, 2010, 04:18 AM

Thomond Park before (<2007)

http://www.toorane.com/large/ThomondPark_A3.jpg

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5825/weststand2.jpg

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/6859/weststand1.jpg

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/8497/eastterrace2.jpg

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/8419/eastterrace1.jpg

During Demolition

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/7113/thomondparkredevelopmen.jpg

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1152/6a7westside2.jpg

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9380/5f9fromtheeast.jpg

New Thomond park (2008<)

http://www.thomondpark.ie/images/news/Thomond-Reopening-03.jpg

http://www.munsterrugby.ie/images/news/thomond-park-1.jpg

http://www.munsterrugby.ie/images/news/TP_match_web.jpg

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/8381/picthomondparkfinal.jpg

fidalgo

July 1st, 2010, 01:12 AM

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/1.jpg

It was a soviet legend, one and only russian water stadium, in Moscow. The place where russian athletes could do surfing on public. Surfing was so exotic for russia..
Now it lays abandoned.

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/2.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/3.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/4.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/5.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/6.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/7.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/8.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/9.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/10.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/11.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/12.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/13.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/14.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/15.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/16.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/17.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/water_stadium/18.jpg
from: englishrussia

carnifex2005

July 1st, 2010, 05:46 AM

Empire Stadium, Vancouver

Opened in 1954 with a capacity of 32,729 for the Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games).

http://i.imgur.com/dvzRQ.jpg

Capacity eventually was reduced to 30,229 after 1974.

http://i.imgur.com/r6Z63.jpg

The main tenants were the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps until they moved to BC Place in 1983. The stadium was finally demolished in 1993 and was turned into a park.

http://i.imgur.com/aWvks.png

Right now it is the site of a temporary stadium called Empire Fields (cap. 27,500). It will be used for both the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps until 2011 when the new roof for BC Place is completed.

http://i.imgur.com/IVcp6.jpg

parcdesprinces

July 1st, 2010, 06:37 AM

^^ OMG: On the first pics it looks like Colombes Stadium in Paris (host stadium of the 1924 Olympics, cap.: 62-70K till the 1990s):

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/7087/23qzva.jpg http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8854/stade10copie.jpg

http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/2125/stade24copie.jpg http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/6029/stade25copie.jpg

Colombes (Stade Olympique Yves du Manoir) nowadays:
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3194/zjgtao.jpg http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/7720/capturedcran20100425105.jpg

New temporary stand (since 2009) in front of the historic grandstand: (current total capacity of the stadium: 14K)
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1552/49fb084a5b.jpg http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1922/52stadejpgauto63040590.jpg

GEwinnen

July 1st, 2010, 12:25 PM

Built for the 1974 World Cup:
http://www.r-winners.de/sport/bilders04/s04_foto8.jpg

(1974)

http://www.stadienwelt.de/wmspecial/templates/stadionguides/gelsenkirchen/images/luft_03.jpg

(2004)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2587172486_caab804067.jpg?v=0
http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

(2008)

http://www.derwesten.de/omg/299043-629032500/530_530_0021920093-0055163538.JPG.jpg

(2010)

parcdesprinces

July 1st, 2010, 01:28 PM

^^ ;) :cheers:

http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/5864/7parkstadion19732001vue.jpg

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2720/8parkstadion19732001vue.jpg

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9761/9parkstadion19732001vue.png

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9427/1parkstadion19732001vue.jpg

T74

July 1st, 2010, 01:49 PM

In order to break the monopoly the MCC had on major sporting stadium in Melbourne, the VFL (now the AFL) build VFL Park out at Waverley

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/past_future/pictures/past_stadiums/melbourne_waverley1.jpg

as you can see, while the full terrace level was built, only part of the full stadium was. With a capacity of over 70k, the plan was to expand it with demand till the final stadium would have a capacity of 150k

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/Hornet/waverley.jpg

sadly the expansion never happened, and the cheap ass AFL failed to keep the stadium in decent repair. by the time they decided to sell the land and switch to the Docklands, the joint was close to falling apart.

Today the vast majority of the stadium is gone. The carpark is how suburban housing, however the oval has been retained, as to part of the old stadium (which is now shops and a training facility for the Hawthorn Football Club). This pick is old, the bulldozed areas are now housing

http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1076388367458_2004/02/10/waverley,0.jpg

GEwinnen

July 1st, 2010, 01:56 PM

^^ ;) :cheers:

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2720/8parkstadion19732001vue.jpg

Nice Pictures, PDP! I used to live just 10 minutes away (walking) from PS, it was my "home of football" for years:cheers:

But there is something wrong in ^^ this picture, the wohle stadium in red????

This must be a shot of the german cup final Cologne vs. Düsseldorf in the 70ies!!

Plevc

July 1st, 2010, 06:40 PM

Centralni štadion za Bežigradom, Ljubljana, Slovenia - 8.259. Built in 1938. Constructed by Slovenia's most famous architect Jože Plečnik. Used many years as NK Olimpija Ljubljana main ground in Yougoslav 1st division and then in Slovenian 1st division. Without the seating in the Yugoslav league, the stadium could hold up to 25.000 people.
Was used as slovenian national stadium until recently (5 years ago).
There have been plans of modernisation, but the site is a cultural monument, so some parts have to be preserved. There are still some plans and hopefully something will be done finally.
Meanwhile Olimpija is getting a new ground.

While it was still in use:

http://www.nkolimpija.com/images/stadio.jpghttp://www.nkolimpija.com/images/stadio1.jpg
http://www.nkolimpija.com/images/stadio2.jpghttp://beta.finance-on.net/pics/cache_MN/MN02_stadion_bezigra_akr.1202204433.jpg
http://www.nkolimpija.com/images/history/stadio-39.jpghttp://image.24ur.com/media/images///600xX/Jun2007//60025283.jpg
http://img.rtvslo.si/upload/sport/gd4_show.jpghttp://www.shrani.si/f/B/nU/PYZqMUC/mala-olimpija-velez.jpg

Now, half demolished, half forgotten:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2764065018_6820f3451e.jpghttp://www.ekipa.org/catalog/kolumna/bezigrad-20090112100302.jpg

Archbishop

July 2nd, 2010, 07:17 AM

Good ol' RCA Dome

Here's it with construction on Lucas Oil Stadium
http://media.wsbt.com/images/RCA_Dome_Demise_Burn.JPG

Here is Lucas Oil Stadium towering over the Dome.
http://www.sportsposterwarehouse.com/catImages/lucasoil08av-1.jpg

I loved this crappy stadium
http://www.nflteamhistory.com/images/stadiums/big/indianapolis_colts.jpg

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/01/13/PH2008011301530.jpg

It was the worst stadium in the NFL by far. It was tight, ugly, and had way too many bench seats for an NFL stadium. Also it was the smallest in the league. However, I watched Colts playoff wins and high school state championships in there. Now it's former spot is being replaced with convention center space.

http://indianapolis.ismyhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/new-indy-convention-center.jpg

With Lucas Oil Stadium plus this convention center expansion Indianapolis will have one of the largest convention centers in the country. Also receiving the Super Bowl and a chance at hosting World Cup matches, it was a wise decision to build a new stadium. It was a nice 24 year run.

FlyingDutchman

July 2nd, 2010, 11:41 AM

Old NAC Breda stadium

http://www.nacforever.nl/picture/historie/beatrixstraat1.jpg
http://www.nacforever.nl/picture/historie/beatrixstraat3.gif
http://www.nacforever.nl/picture/historie/beatrixstraat5.jpg

Stadium was used from 1940 till 1996, Those where the days!

pachecohv

July 2nd, 2010, 03:45 PM

3SPIRES

July 2nd, 2010, 05:27 PM

^^ OMG: On the first pics it looks like Colombes Stadium in Paris (host stadium of the 1924 Olympics, cap.: 62-70K till the 1990s):

Doesn't look that big.

parcdesprinces

July 2nd, 2010, 06:53 PM

^^ As far I know, its attendance record was around 67,000 spectators, including standing areas (5 nations championship during the 60's)

It also hosted several games with attendance over 62K, including the UEFA European Cup final 1969 (attendance 63,638), and the FIFA WC final 1938.

It was expanded for the 1938 WC, we can see the expansion on the 2nd pic bellow, with the new parts of roofs who look different, and with the distance from the pitch of the reconstructed stands behind the goal.

Before the expansion (1924, during the Olympic games):
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/213/capturedcran20100702190.jpg

After the expansion, from 1938 (see the distance behind the goal):
http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/1578/capturedcran20100702185.jpg

Interior (62K+ spectators, including terraces):
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/6029/stade25copie.jpg

mrakbaseball

September 14th, 2010, 03:54 AM

mario_mendoza_hof_lock

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2763/4396626025_61e59059fc_o.jpg

note the unfinished left-center bleachers

Jim856796

October 1st, 2010, 06:43 AM

Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo, Japan lived from 1937 to 1988. It stood near the current site of the Tokyo Dome. A stadium built for Keirin cycling was built near it in 1949.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/photo/photogallery/japan_history_standard/16.jpg

Frnjchuga031

October 1st, 2010, 02:55 PM

Stari Plac, Split, Croatia...

Before:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hr/8/86/Stari_plac.jpg

Now:

http://www.dubrovacki.hr/datastore/imagestore/original/1256745516st_stari_plac0107_pok.jpg

HoldenV8

October 4th, 2010, 08:48 AM

Even though it only had a capacity of 78,000, the record attendance at Waverly Park was 92,935 for Collingwood vs Hawthorn on the Queens Birthday public holiday in 1981. Imagine how it would have been had they built it as planned. However, if I am right attempts to do this were blocked. The MCC (Melbourne Cricket Club) had/have a lot of pull with the Victorian State Government and got further development blocked in a successful attempt at keeping the MCG as Melbourne's biggest and best stadium.

Currently its capacity is 2,000. Waverly went by a few different names in its life. Waverly Park, VFL Park, AFL Park and as a reference to it being cold there (especially at night), Arctic Park.

bikegames59

October 4th, 2010, 09:15 AM

Just because they need more seat arrangements, i also like the old one

bikegames59

October 4th, 2010, 09:17 AM

Because they need more seat arrangements, i also like old stadium

Hatillense

October 4th, 2010, 10:53 PM

Costa Rica National Stadium, San Jose. It was demolished and the new one is being finished on the same spot.

Old one

nacional, eliminatoria contra canada en 1997

http://www.mundoimg.com/imagenes/otros/207954_mundoimg_img0228.jpg (http://www.mundoimg.com)

http://a.imageshack.us/img225/3352/dsc05125t.jpg

http://a.imageshack.us/img30/2647/dsc05123c.jpg

http://a.imageshack.us/img807/7402/dsc05122.jpg

New One --Still under construction---

Me gusta como se ven las butacas!!! Aca les dejo este par:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5049098786_953aa9f667_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5048477267_122bf291ba_b.jpg

saludos

Jim856796

October 30th, 2010, 07:52 AM

elias-120

February 26th, 2011, 04:19 PM

Estadio Ciudad de La Plata: Argentina

http://bucket.lanacion.com.ar/anexos/fotos/53/1330353.jpg

http://bucket.lanacion.com.ar/anexos/fotos/00/1330400.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l73/planetfunk_01/DSC01961.jpg

http://bucket.lanacion.com.ar/anexos/fotos/55/1330355.jpg

http://www.pronto.com.ar/images/stories/estadio370.jpg

Rev Stickleback

February 26th, 2011, 06:28 PM

Nice, but unless something catastrophic has resulted in it being demolished recently, it's in the wrong thread.

andru04499

March 3rd, 2011, 02:40 AM

Philadelphia Spectrum - recently demolished

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5300/5468738735_74fda41ccc.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/5443027792_728f6c4a39.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5439800561_66ccc24fa8_b.jpg

Jim856796

March 3rd, 2011, 02:46 AM

^^Should have been easy to demolish the Spectrum by implosion.

www.sercan.de

March 8th, 2011, 04:58 PM

Ali Sami Yen Stadi
http://i1103.hizliresim.com/2011/3/8/210.jpg

www.sercan.de

May 3rd, 2011, 06:09 PM

RIP Ali Sami Yen Stadi :(
http://img.footballove.com/2011/05/samiyen...-500x375.jpg

Bigmac1212

May 4th, 2011, 07:11 PM

This is Tokyo Stadium (actually has same name as Ajinamoto Stadium). It was built in 1962 and torn down in 1977.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Tokyo_stadium_minamisenjyu_1974-2.jpg

Maybe it's just me, but it looks like the original US Cellular Field/New Comisky Park.

carlspannoosh

May 4th, 2011, 08:19 PM

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4645002925_ea517f9f94_z.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24073472@N04/4645002925/

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4608936191_0cd2bac35f_z.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer/4608936191/

www.sercan.de

May 17th, 2011, 02:55 PM

http://www.havadanemlak.com/resimler/icerik/orjinal/2725_ali_sami_yen_stadi__fc49c790110ab1a2891fba5764_.JPG

parcdesprinces

May 17th, 2011, 04:36 PM

^^ They forgot to tear down a part of the stands :D

www.sercan.de

May 17th, 2011, 05:36 PM

Today they demolished it :(

Anubis2051

May 17th, 2011, 09:54 PM

Work is coming along nicely at Hermitage Field, the former site of Yankee Stadium (1923-2008), across the street from the current Yankee Stadium.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05230.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05233.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05235.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05240.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05248.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05263.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05268.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05281.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05320.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05344.jpg

CVTower

May 18th, 2011, 12:00 AM

What exactly (if anything) from old Yankee Stadium was preserved for Hermitage Park? I didn't notice anything from the photos

Anubis2051

May 19th, 2011, 02:53 AM

What exactly (if anything) from old Yankee Stadium was preserved for Hermitage Park? I didn't notice anything from the photos

Almost nothing.

"The Bat" (an old exhaust pipe designed to look like a Louisville slugger) is still there, but Yankee fans consider that to be a joke. You can see it here when the stadium was still standing:
http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2008/09/23/alg_yankee-stadium-daytime.jpg

The only other thing that has been rumored (but I'm not sure if it's confirmed yet) is that the outfield freeze will be installed behind the little league field on the bar shown in the picture bellow. But again I'm not sure if that's confirmed,
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/spalevas/DSC05235.jpg
http://everystockphoto.s3.amazonaws.com/baseball_yankees_stadium_679028_l.jpg

some fans tried to convince the city to conserve gate 2, the only gate untouched by the 70's renovation, but the powers that be decided to tear it down, even though saving it wouldn't have encroached on the park plan at all.

http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2009/09/17/amd_yankee_stadium_gate2.jpg
http://blog.nj.com/yankees_main/2009/05/large_park523.jpg

Jim856796

May 19th, 2011, 06:33 AM

^^Is Heritage Park bettwe with the gate or without?

Anubis2051

May 20th, 2011, 02:19 PM

Without. Gate 2 was demoed early last year:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ip45fBCljk/S7TE92XGfxI/AAAAAAAAALw/I-ZsuI7KzBo/s400/IMG_8029.JPG

mrakbaseball

May 21st, 2011, 01:50 AM

Kingdome 1976-2000
http://www.thethinkstick.com
http://www.thethinkingstick.com/images/2011/04/kingdome.JPG

Битола

May 21st, 2011, 02:12 AM

Built in 1912, demolished in 2009.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/2639945772_55fd14b322.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/richkd/2639945772/)
flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/richkd/2639945772/) by RichKD (http://www.flickr.com/photos/richkd/), on Flickr

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4590580612_6889230d2c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43289453@N03/4590580612/)
flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43289453@N03/4590580612/) by Everything_Jerry_Reuss (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43289453@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/11/13142042_701dc53502.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/steidler/13142042/)
flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/steidler/13142042/) by Lost Airman (http://www.flickr.com/photos/steidler/), on Flickr

www.sercan.de

June 1st, 2011, 08:27 PM

Taksim stadi

Built in the 1840s as an Arsenal
Turned 1921 into a stadium with a capacity of 10,000. (record 18,000)

It was Istanbul's first "big" stadium.

Although it was a small stadium its special for me, because i like the design :)

Unfortunately it was closed and demolished 1940. (A french architect made a masterplan for this area and he prefered a park instead of a stadium. City built Inönü stadium)

The first match under floodlight in Turkey was played here (9.9.1939)

Main Entrance
http://img30.exs.cx/img30/8787/image29yx.jpg

http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/2184/topcu46gh.jpg

http://www.bilder-hosting.de/img/BX2NY.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/3300/topcu30be9.jpg

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/71/topcu5an7.jpg

Player entrance
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9720/taksimstadmacacikilirkeyi0.jpg

Main stand
http://www.bjk.com/about/club/facilities/images/taksim.jpg

First match of the turkish National team
Oct 26,1923 Turkey 2-2 Romania
http://www.angelfire.com/nj/sivritepe/images/nt01.jpg

And of course the legendary derby :D
23.2.1934
GS-FB match

Friday 23 February 1934 was the day when unexpected riots happened at a supposed to be friendly match between Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray played at Taksim Stadium. Both teams wanted to win badly and therefore the match had to be stopped many times because of hard fouls. The high tension on the pitch caused high tension on the stands as well. The game ended with players fighting, the pitch turned out to be a war area. The referee had no choice except to abandon the match. It was the end of friendly displays between both clubs.

http://www.turkfutbolu.net/tarih/images/1930lar/fbgskavga_23_Subat_1934.jpg
It will be rebuilt :)
http://www.hayal-et.org/images/taksim_3000_copy.jpg

http://www.hayal-et.org/images/taksim_20000_copy.jpg

1.Leisure City
Although it is rather difficult to perceive today, the axis that starts at Şişli-Elmadağ and ends with the Monument of Republic was designed as a prestigious boulevard of the city. But little of the initial design was implemented and what was built has changed drastically. What if the designs ,with all its cafes and big stores that took the wide boulevards of cities like Paris as a model could be realized without the Taksim Barracks being demolished? What if the Talimhane district remained as an open space, and converted into a square with green areas, and the Taksim barracks was turned into a place full with cafes where people could take a sip of their coffees, enjoying the square? Would Taksim be then a true urban square where people would like to spend time instead of just passing through an empty space in the city?
http://www.hayal-et.org/images/taksim-cafe.jpg

2.Provisional City
At the beginning of the 19th century Taksim area was the edge of the city, beyond this area there were only cemeteries and military barracks, but from late Ottoman period until today this area has been transformed into the physical representation of power; that is why it is in a constant state of construction and destruction. The graveyards were removed to build barracks during the first military reform movements of the Ottoman Empire whereas the Republican era removed some of the Ottoman buildings and erected its own monuments like the Opera House, the Monument of Republic, the Gezi Park. With globalization, new high-rise buildings were built like The Marmara Hotel, and Tarlabaşı area was destroyed to make way for new roads, and all of these interventions and clashes still continue today. In reality, Taksim area (and Istanbul in general) is built and rebuilt constantly, it has a provisional state. What if Taksim Barracks was not destroyed but partly survived the destructive forces, how would the Square look like? While one part is converted into a luxury residence and another part into a car park, would people remember what this building was, while wandering around an abandoned piece of it?
http://www.hayal-et.org/images/taksim_ic_otopark-3_copy.jpg

3.Open City
In the past, the Taksim Barracks, had a special place in the memories of the people of Istanbul. The barracks that hosted the first football matches, flight attempts, boxing matches, car and motorcycle races, and with the Republican Era, classical music concerts and national holiday celebrations, was destroyed in 1940/41 to build the Taksim Gezi Park. What if the Barracks was not destroyed, and only its courtyard was converted into a park? Would people lie down in the grasses of the park that is far away from the chaos of Taksim, while the sounds rise from the museums and concert halls inside the barracks that encircle the courtyard?
http://www.hayal-et.org/images/taksim_park12_copy.jpg

4.Improvisional City
In Beyoğlu neighborhood, old theatre halls got converted into stores or night clubs; ballrooms into döner, kebap shops or cafes and old houses into bars, stores or offices, once their past owners (mainly Greeks and Levantines) left the city. With the gaps in the law and common insensitivity joining together, almost all buildings have been re-shaped in an improvisational manner. What if the Taksim Barracks was not destroyed , might it also survive this situation? Or would its rooms be combined, its walls be torn down for opening larger windows for shops, and all its empty spaces be used for various purposes?
http://www.hayal-et.org/images/4-.jpg

5.City Of Collective Memories
Taksim Barracks housed many sport events during the Ottoman era as well as the early years of the Turkish Republic. The football games that started during the occupation years in Talimhane area between the occupation forces and Turkish teams were later transferred to the courtyard of the Taksim Barraks. The matches of teams like Galatasaray, Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe with English and French teams, as well as the first national games of the young Republic were played here. The barracks housed not only football games, but also boxing matches, horse races, car and motorcycle races. If the barracks was not destroyed could it preserve its modest atmosphere? Would people still play street football on its field covered with weeds, while you find yourself 70 years in the past when you enter its courtyard surrounded by old walls?
http://www.hayal-et.org/images/5-collective.jpg

Jim856796

June 1st, 2011, 08:58 PM

Giants Stadium hosted a U2 concert as part of their 360 Tour and the stadium had passed away while the tour was still ongoing.

Gutex

June 2nd, 2011, 05:05 PM

Estádio Raimundo Sampaio (AKA Independência) - Belo Horizonte - Brazil

The stadium was constructed for the 1950 FIFA World Cup. The inaugural match was the World Cup match between Yugoslavia and Switzerland, won by the former by 3-0, and played on June 25, 1950. The first stadium goal was scored by Tomasevic. One of the most famous upsets in FIFA World Cup history was played there, the 1-0 upset by the United States over England.
In 2010, Independência was demolished apart from its dressing rooms and a brand new stadium is being built in its place to host the games of Atlético Mineiro, Cruzeiro EC and América Mineiro while Mineirão undergoes renovations to host the 2014 World Cup.

http://a2bs.sites.uol.com.br/indepen.jpg

http://www.fat-buddha.net/mundial/STADIUM/belohorizonte.jpg

http://www.desmontec.com/arquivo/fck/image/estadio_independencia.jpg

http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/795/62569418.png

http://www.craquesdoradio.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/NOVO-DUTRA.jpg

Jim856796

June 18th, 2011, 10:49 PM

Three deadmen walking...
http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/The_Spectrum_and_Stadiums.jpg/180px-The_Spectrum_and_Stadiums.jpg

seasideJI

September 16th, 2011, 12:31 AM

Highbury stadium arsenal, was such an beautiful ground, shame they had to demolish 90% of the ground. I went there last year and what they have done to the ground is so impressive, by keeping the east and west looking like the old highbury is amazing, love how they have not built on the pitch aswell. http://www.highburysquare.com/gallery.html

mrakbaseball

September 30th, 2011, 07:56 AM

Kingdome

K7Akx0U6mvA

wearethefuture

September 30th, 2011, 12:04 PM

Fredrikstad

September 30th, 2011, 01:58 PM

First of all, sorry for my english.

This is the former home stadium to Fredrikstad Fotballklubb (FFK). They played their last game here november 5th 2006 but it was used by lower league teams until a few weeks before it was demonlished. Most of the stands was from around 30s and late 40s. FFK won 9 league titles and 11 cup titles during the time at this stadium.

FACTS:

Built: 1914
Demonlished: 2011
Capacity: 10,500 ( 5000-6000 seats)
Record attendance: 15.534 (against Larvik Turn) September 30th 1956
First match: Fredrikstad - Moss 3-2 (Attendance: Unknown)
Last match: Fredrikstad - Rosenborg 1-1 (Attendance: 10,500)

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/4828/dsc0119xw.jpg

This is the main stand seen from the VIP-"stand" at the club house. I think the capacity was around 3600 (All seater).

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4663/dsc0115ug.jpg

The club house, built in 1932. In the background you can see the even older club house and a stand named "Gressviktribunen"

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2236/dsc0057bi.jpg
"Klokkesvingen" ("Clock End" in english.) Capacity about 3000.

This is the new stadium, completed in 2007. About 600-700 meters south of the old stadium.
http://www.stadionsiden.com/multimedia/pano02.JPG

MrYoung

September 30th, 2011, 07:49 PM

I love the new stadium in Fredrikstad, probably my favorite in Norway despite the supporting pillars. Its so nice to see something that is a bit more than your typical boring-bowl stadium.

I just wish I had been there on september 21st... ;)

Jim856796

October 1st, 2011, 01:11 AM

I still find it unbelievable how they can demolish 20-30 year old stadiums in the states like its nothing, can they not just update and renovate as opposed to spending hundreds of millions on new builds?

Sometimes, the structures of most 30-year-old stadiums are just impossible to renovate or upgrade for the 21st century. That's why brand-new stadiums were being built starting in the 1990s decade.

persona753

October 1st, 2011, 04:46 PM

Sarrià Stadium (Real Club Deportivo Espanyol) (Barcelona)
1923-1997
http://i53.tinypic.com/292p65v.jpg
http://i56.tinypic.com/160wmk9.jpg

Demolition(1997)
294n2i7bJCg

Jim856796

October 4th, 2011, 06:24 AM

Demolition has started on Pittsburgh's Civic Arena and it will continue until May of 2012.

mrakbaseball

October 10th, 2011, 07:46 AM

Number 24 hitting one out

X2UjZ1JVggQ

Jim856796

January 7th, 2012, 04:06 AM

The Amway Arena in Orlando, Florida will pass away by implosion in March 2012.

KiwiRob

January 8th, 2012, 11:37 AM

MrYoung

January 8th, 2012, 05:44 PM

You really think it's nicer than Aker Stadium in Molde?

Aker Stadium might be "nicer" to look at, but as a football fan I would take Fredrikstad Stadion over it. It has nice steep single tiered stands instead of splitting it up in two small tiers, the roof is much lower which helps cover the spectators and adds to the atmosphere, and its unique. The supporting pillars are a bit of a shame, but to me its like a proper, classic football stadium!

gavstar00

September 21st, 2012, 02:29 PM

Arsenal Stadium - Highbury

After the Taylor Report banned the use of terraces in football stadium in the UK, Arsenal were forced to explore options for the redevelopment of the North Bank at the stadium which was torn down at the end of the 1991/2 season.

While many will be familiar with it's replacement, the original design of the new North Bank stand was actually different to the final outcome.

Original Design for North Bank Stand (circa 1990/1)

http://arsenalonetwofive.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/108-011.jpg
arsenalonetwofive.files.wordpress.com

http://arsenalonetwofive.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/108-07.jpg
arsenalonetwofive.files.wordpress.com

Final Finished North Bank Stand (1993-2005)

http://www.arsenalpics.com/image/north_bank_stand_during_the_match_arsenal_70_everton_barclays_premiership_97820.jpg
www.arsenalpics.com
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/186/369979137_ea187cef11_z.jpg?zz=1
www.flickr.com
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/questforthe92/Arsenal-NorthBank.JPG
questforthe92

trmather

September 21st, 2012, 02:32 PM

Glad they changed the design, much better as it ended up.

Such a shame it only lasted twelve years actually because it's a perfect behind the goal stand. Simple design that worked.

andretanure

September 22nd, 2012, 04:30 AM

Estádio Independência 1947-2010(Independence Stadium) - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Capacity: 15.000

One of the most famous upsets in FIFA World Cup history was played here, the 1-0 upset by the United States over England at the 1950 World Cup.

http://webgalo.comze.com/01_img/indepen.jpg

http://galoemeuamor.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/independencia.jpg

USA 1 X 0 ENGLAND http://imgsapp.mg.superesportes.com.br/app/noticia_126420360808/2012/07/02/221038/20120702141336728316o.jpg

In 2010, Independência was demolished apart from its dressing rooms, and a brand new stadium was built in its place to host the games of Atlético Mineiro, Cruzeiro and América Mineiro while Mineirão undergoes renovations to host the 2014 World Cup.
New Capacity: 23.000

http://www.americamineiro.com.br/uploads/grande.jpg

http://mafiaazul.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/torcida5.jpg

andretanure

September 22nd, 2012, 04:38 AM

Estádio Mané Garrincha 1974-2010 - Brasília, Brazil
Old Capacity: 40.000
New Capacity: 71.000

http://www.diref.org.br/images/stories/esportes/olinsesp/081007_estadio_mane_garrincha_velho.jpg

http://www.fussballtempel.net/conmebol/BRA/Mane_Garrincha_A2.jpg

http://w3.i.uol.com.br/Wap/2010/07/28/midia-indoor-wap-obras-no-estadio-mane-garrincha-em-brasilia-uma-das-sedes-da-copa-2014-1280319877984_300x300.jpg

The Mané Garrincha Stadium was demolished in 2010 to give way to a new stadium with a capacity of 71,000 fans and in order to reach the requirements for the 2014 World Cup, which will be held in Brazil. The stadium was renamed in early 2010 to the Estádio Nacional de Brasília and the construction began on April of the same year. The reconstruction involves dismantling the lower tier and retaining the upper tier into the new rectangular bowl, and reducing the size of the playing field so that the stadium can be a football-specific stadium.

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September 2012:
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