NZ | Stadiums + Infrastructure

[TonyNZ]

First up the Westpac stadium (cake tin) in Wellington, capacity: 35,000





Waikato stadium in Hamilton, capacity: 28,000 , 20,000 seats





North Harbour stadium in Auckland, capacity:25,000 , 19,000 seats





Mount Smart stadium in Auckland, capacity: 35,000 , 27,000 seats





Eden park at current state in Auckland, capacity: 45,000



Proposed $380 million upgrade in time for RwC, capacity: 60,000







Jayde stadium in Christchurch, capacity: 36,500



Proposed $60 million upgrade in time for RwC, capacity: 43,000





The Basin Reserve in Wellington, capacity:13,000



Proposed $180 million Dunedin stadium, capacity unknown



If there are any other stadiums you would like to add that i have not mentioned please do so!

[Wezza]

Eden Park certainly looks like a patchwork quilt. NZ needs a great national stadium. Whats happening with the idea of building a stadium down near the Auckland Harbour?

EDIT: Just read the NZ National Stadium thread!!

[Marky Mark]

Here's Tauranga's Blue Chip Stadium , seats 19,800 plus corporate Boxes .

[Davee]

Nice round up!!

Missed Dunedin with it's FAB proposal.

Still think Christchurch's non balancing east stand is a crap idea.

[Mo Rush]

jade stadium really has turned into a fantastic venue...i quite like the cake tin...always have..not sure why

[IHaveNoLegs]

intersting how Jade stadium was ordered by the NZRFU to get rid of its embankment nearly ten years ago when hamilton gets away with builiding a new gorund with an embankment at one the ends

[SYDNEY]

Geeez, there are some ugly stadiums here the cake tin is still my fave.

[Allblackz]

If we go ahead with the new Nation Stadium (and im praying they do) when we are going to have one hell of a sporting infastructure for a nation of this size. Hopefully it will open up more oppotunites for NZ to host more world class sporting event

[Kane007]

Whangarei's Okara Park:

View South


View West


North Stand


South Stand


Building site plan


Level 3 floor plan


Overall plan


3D fly though - WMV 2.64MB
3D fly through - MOV 3.31MB

[spotila]

todd you gotta find some stuff on mclean park, I failed

[TonyNZ]

Looks good Kane is this a proposal or has it already got consent?

[Kane007]

Got resource consent on 2006/09/19 but my be held up by possible environment court action - still waiting!

[TonyNZ]

Thats really cool kane i like it, you know i dont care what anyone says but New Zealand will have one hell of a stadium infrastructure for a country of only 4 million ppl once Okara park, eden park, jayde stadium and the new dundein stadium are built.

[CParker]

You can hardly call most of them stadiums in the sense that they are fully enclosed by stands in a uniform kind of way. Wellington is by far the smartest. Jade Stadium will be the most dramatic with two high, multi-tiered stands. Whangerei's (planned) Okara Park isa great venue for a city that site, as are most of them. I just think Eden Park needs to look a bit more representative. It should be the flagship stadium for a sport-obsessed nation. Now that I'm over the waterfront stadium disappointment, I'd happily settle for a full redevelopment of Eden Park. Please, please not the temporary seating. Shame on us if it happens.

[TonyNZ]

I think Eden park looks great and can definetely be our flagship stadium with its current design. Im not to happy with Jayde stadiums design but it will have a great atmosphere. In our major ctites we should have 3 wrap around stadiums.

1. Wellingtons westapc stadium
2. Aucklands Eden park
3. Dunedins new stadium

Compare New Zealands stadiums with Irelands stadiums, both countries have a similar population, yet you will see we have better quality stadia, the only good stadium in Ireland is Croke park with a capacity of roughly 80,000 but even that is not a complete wrap around stadium.

heres a pic of Irelands biggest/best:

[Dazzle]

Great picture of Croke Park TonyNZ.

I've been to Croke Park 5 times since arriving in Dublin. Fantastic stadium. It does not fully wrap around because a main railway line runs just behind the terrace section. Having said that, it was built over the years mostly with Government grants. Same could happen in NZ if there is a will??!

There is something about attending events in World Class Stadiums. You would go and watch tiddlywinks or whatever, just to be part of a big occasion. NZ should join the countries who have proper stadiums. Its all part of being a grown-up country...

[IHaveNoLegs]

Originally Posted by TonyNZ

Compare New Zealands stadiums with Irelands stadiums, both countries have a similar population, yet you will see we have better quality stadia, the only good stadium in Ireland is Croke park with a capacity of roughly 80,000 but even that is not a complete wrap around stadium.

what about the proposed lansdowne road which will fit 55,000?

What about Thurls Semple Stadium, which can hold 55,000?

What about Limerick Gaelic Grounds which can hold 50,000?

What about Cork Pairc Ui Caoimh, which can hold 43,500?

What about Killarney Fitzgerald Stadium, which can hold 43,000?

what about the 6 others that can hold 30,000+?


and there are two reasons why Croke Park is not complete wrap around stadium
1. property is an issue (similar to lansdowne road and what twickenham used to have)
2. the embankment there has a cult following

also compare Auckland to Brisbane. Aucklands greater area has a population of
over 1.2 million while Brisbane is over 1.5 million
Brisbane has 3 stadiums which seat over 40,000
Suncorp Stadium 52,579 all-seater

Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre 48,400 all-seater

The Gabba 42,000 all-seater

while Aucklands only has 1

btw the eden park proposal is not a complete wrap around stadium

[IHaveNoLegs]

spotila here is a few pics of mclean park:

[IHaveNoLegs]

some pics of Fmg Stadium in Palmerston North

[TonyNZ]

Originally Posted by IHaveNoLegs

what about the proposed lansdowne road?

and there are two reasons why Croke Park is not complete wrap around stadium
1. property is an issue (similar to lansdowne road and what twickenham used to have)
2. the embankment there has a cult following

also compare Auckland to Brisbane. Aucklands greater area has a population of
over 1.2 million while Brisbane is over 1.5 million
Brisbane has 3 stadiums which seat over 40,000
Suncorp Stadium 52,579 all-seater

Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre 48,400 all-seater

The Gabba 42,000 all-seater

while Aucklands only has 1

btw the eden park proposal is not a complete wrap around stadium

Would just like to say that Brisbanes population is nearing 1.8 million and Auckland is nearing 1.3 million, the reason Brisbane has 3 large stadiums is for 1 the Queensland sports and athletics centre(ANZ stadium) used to be the prime Rugby stadium in Brisbane until they realised they had to build a better stadium in a more prime location - because NSW had great stadiums Queensland had to aswell. The Gabba is their prime cricket and AFl ground, it has only just recently had a reno job to bring its capacity up past 40,000. These days athletics park doesnt get used that often, mostly only for its running track. I think it would be better to compare Auckland with Perth or Adelaide really becuase the 500,000 more people living in Brisbane would make a difference in how big/better the stadiums are.