LONDON | Emirates Stadium | 60,361 | Completed

[Noostairz]

some new pics from awimb.com:

[Cabman]

Just 13 months to go and she's looking good.

[Medo]

she's looking damn good

[NothingBetterToDo]

I love how you can see this stadium looming over holloway road....its very impressive.

[AndrewC]

She looks cracking, but is there any scope for expansion?

[Noostairz]

[LegEnd]

Originally Posted by AndrewC

She looks cracking, but is there any scope for expansion?

got to say it dosnt look like they would be able to do any expansion without taking the roof off and building a new one. Seems a bit stupid to build a stadium with no room for expansion, especially when they are replacing a ground with that exact problem.

[Noostairz]

Originally Posted by LegEnd

got to say it dosnt look like they would be able to do any expansion without taking the roof off and building a new one. Seems a bit stupid to build a stadium with no room for expansion, especially when they are replacing a ground with that exact problem.

pure speculation here but i'm guessing they might be able to fill the corners in where the upper tier slopes away from the roof...

[Cabman]

Definately no room for expansion. Not enough space around the outside of the stadium for that. The shear size of the roof structure would make it unviable to remove the roof, expand the upper tier, put a new roof on. See just not on, anyway if they ever need to expand they could just buy out Wembley.

[EarlyBird]

Why are people saying this looks good? It's as cheap as you can get. It looks like any of half a dozen of the new edenti-kit stadia going up around the country right now. A tragedy in urban design.

[tommygunn]

Originally Posted by EarlyBird2

Why are people saying this looks good? It's as cheap as you can get. It looks like any of half a dozen of the new edenti-kit stadia going up around the country right now. A tragedy in urban design.

its a huge improvement on highbury no doubt.

[EarlyBird]

Originally Posted by tommygunn

its a huge improvement on highbury no doubt.

Yes, but that's like saying a pig farm is better than a palace just because you're used to living near a sewage works!

[eddyk]

What are you on about EB...I wish over a dozen other stadiums like this were going around the country....but I cant think of one other stadium in the UK that looks like this...

[EarlyBird]

Originally Posted by eddyk

What are you on about EB...I wish over a dozen other stadiums like this were going around the country....but I cant think of one other stadium in the UK that looks like this...

Sorry but Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool (and a couple of other clubs too) are all at varying stages of development for new stadia, all of which look remarkably similar. This design is overused now, and it looks cheap either way. It's similar to Stansted in that it looks like someone simply took a supermarket and modified it to fit it's new use. Shockingly bad for a club the size of Arsenal.

[carlspannoosh]

Originally Posted by EarlyBird2

Sorry but Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool (and a couple of other clubs too) are all at varying stages of development for new stadia, all of which look remarkably similar.

Which Chelsea development are you talking about? Got any pictures? And who are these other English or British clubs that you mention as currently building remarkably similiar stadia?

[EarlyBird]

Originally Posted by carlspannard

Which Chelsea development are you talking about? Got any pictures? And who are these other English or British clubs that you mention as currently building remarkably similiar stadia?

One of the two other teams was Everton, though they may now end up ground-sharing with Liverpool. As for the Chelsea development, unfortunately I don't have any pictures. If I did I would have posted them in here as I've not seen any renders of the development in here yet.

[carlspannoosh]

Originally Posted by EarlyBird2

One of the two other teams was Everton, though they may now end up ground-sharing with Liverpool. As for the Chelsea development, unfortunately I don't have any pictures. If I did I would have posted them in here as I've not seen any renders of the development in here yet.

Where did you see the Chelsea design? Are there any pictures of the "remarkably similiar" Everton design on the internet?

[EarlyBird]

Originally Posted by carlspannard

Where did you see the Chelsea design? Are there any pictures of the "remarkably similiar" Everton design on the internet?

There are indeed pictures of the Everton design on the net, just as there are pictures of the new Anfield.

[Nacho]

Originally Posted by edennewstairs

I wonder if the guys living in the flats in the bottom left of the picture will have liittle glimpse of the field........from the roof maybe?
I like the stadium but I think Arsenal could have pushed for a few more thousand....something a little more distinctive too.I felt the same during the European Championships too....some impressive stadia in Portugal but again following the same line.

[carlspannoosh]

Originally Posted by EarlyBird2

There are indeed pictures of the Everton design on the net, just as there are pictures of the new Anfield.

I found these two renderings. Neither of them look remarkably similiar to The Emirates Stadium to me. Either way its a pretty irrelevent comparison as these proposals were scrapped a long time ago as Everton were unable to finance them.




@ Earlybird2. Where did you see the new Chelsea plans that you mention? Is there a description of these plans anywhere on the internet? If so could you tell us where so we can compare them to The Emirates stadium? Cheers.