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What do you think about Blue Volcano Stadium?

  • I like it and it's unique landmark

    Votes: 98 31%

  • I like it and it's landmark but not unique

    Votes: 13 4.1%

  • I like it but it's not landmark

    Votes: 16 5.1%

  • I don't like it

    Votes: 139 44%

  • Indifferent

    Votes: 49 16%
  • Total voters
    315
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#1,911 ·
In 1949, the St. Louis Cardinals were sick and tired of being tenants of their local rivals, the St. Louis Browns. So they came up with this plan for a new, baseball-only stadium, to be built near where the current stadium is. Preparations were moving along, until the Browns leaked the news that they were moving to Baltimore, and the old ballpark was for sale. So this was consigned to the dustbin of history. Tweeted by Old Time Baseball Photos.

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#1,914 ·
In the early 2000s, before NYC approved the third Yankee Stadium, the Yankees threatened to move to New Jersey. This was one proposal of how New Jersey stadium would look, just north of the Meadowlands complex. Tweeted by MLBcathedrals.

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#1,916 ·
^^ Your pictures are sadly not visible here since Stadiumpage is not on a website with a secured https prefix. Stadiumpage needs to up their game on this.
 
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#1,917 ·
neomam envisions the unbuilt baseball stadiums that could have been

in the 1850s, a baseball craze swept through new york, and the term ‘national pastime’ was coined for the sport by journalists. baseball has been a key figure for history in the united states as well, from jackie robinson breaking the color boundary with the brooklyn dodgers, to the socio-political discussion regarding minimum wage for minor league players in spring 2018. the theaters for baseball are the stadiums that stage the events.

in neomam’s latest project in collaboration with vivid seats, the studio bring seven unbuilt stadiums to life through renderings that place them in a modern context, visualizing what could have been.
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https://www.designboom.com/architecture/neomam-vivid-seats-baseball-stadiums-08-10-18/






brooklyn dome (brooklyn dodgers)

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the first rendering by neomam for vivid seats is a transforming a proposal by walter o’malley before he relocated the brooklyn dodgers to los angeles. the brooklyn dome proposal in 1956 was envisaged to be situated between atlantic and flatbush avenues. it would have been the first domed stadium in the world, using a lightweight aluminum structure to cover the field in poor weather.
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pittsburgh stadium (pirates)

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a couple of years later in 1958, one of the most interesting designs was proposed by the pittsburgh pirates, a stadium on-top of the monongahela river where the smithfield bridge is today. this proposal for pittsburgh stadium would have solved the issue of finding space in premium location by manufacturing it out of thin air. the futuristic and sleek design featured two towers at the end of the platform, intended to be hotels. however the plan was scraped in the 1970s.
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boston dome (red sox)

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in 1965, one of the most iconic stadiums in fenway park would have been replaced by the boston dome for the red sons. the idea was for the new stadium ‘to host baseball and football, with a separate arena for basketball, hockey and even dog racing. its unique dome was made up of 12 diamond-shaped, retractable parts that would all slide outwards to open in about 20 minutes.’ it would be situated on i-90 (massachusetts turnpike).
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chicago domes (white sox)

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in 1985 the firm skidmore, owings & merill wanted to house both the chicago bears and white sox’s under one roof at a proposed location on halsted street in the west side. it would feature a backdrop of chicago’s skyline.
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denver stadium (colorado rockies)

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just a few blocks from coors field in downtown denver, jim conrad proposed a new mlb stadium in 1990 named denver stadium for the colorado rockies. it had an unusual design featuring three axes running out from the circle of the field itself. the one of the axes would feature a helipad on its roof, the next a plaza with landscaping would have run up to the main entrance, with the last left for parking.
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pontiac dome (detroit tigers)

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the site where the current featherstone road sits had various proposals. a strong candidest in 1970s was the ‘pontiac dome’ for the detroit tigers, saw dual usage of a roof that would switch between covering a football stadium or baseball stadium, with a landscaped plaza in the middle.
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rays ballpark (tampa bay rays)

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most recently the tamp bay rays wanted to construct rays ballpark in 2007. it featured a ‘light, airy design, with a sail-like retractable roof and an open side overlooking the water, was intended to seat 34,000 spectators.’ it was set to be opened in 2012 but it ran into funding issues was shelved in 2008.
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MANICA Architecture worked directly for FC Internazionale, in partnership with Sports Investment Group (SIG) to provide preliminary concept, feasibility, and design for the new 60,000 seat stadium for Football Club Inter Milan in Milan, Italy.

The design of the stadium was part of a broader masterplan development created by MANICA to provide the ultimate sport and entertainment destination for Milan. It included a new 60,000 seat state-of-the-art stadium; a 12,000 seat arena; entertainment, retail, and commercial areas; and the potential for the future development of business conference facilities, multiple hotels, and residential towers.
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https://www.manicaarchitecture.com/page/inter-milan-stadium
 
#1,920 ·
Can someone tell me if we've talked about this one? It appears to be a floating stadium in Seattle and I've never seen this design.

Here's what the article says:
If Seattle's floating stadium was a fleeting fantasy, downtown Edmonton's Omniplex was a lingering impossibility. The multipurpose stadium and convention center was a matter of public debate for eight years before succumbing to the common maladies of overwrought design, a challenging location, and more-manageable (and affordable) alternatives.


Building a stadium in any downtown is a political challenge. Using taxpayer funds to build a facility that features a football field suspended in midair over an ice rink is an even bigger challenge. A 1968 city pamphlet claimed the Omniplex would be "as bizarre in concept as the Expo pavilions (in Montreal) … as well as much more weatherproof than the Astrodome."


In spite of that stirring sales pitch, the Omniplex went down the tubes. Between 1968 and 1971, cost estimates increased by more than 50 percent because of design changes and ballooning downtown land values. Instead of a stadium that cost more than its parts were worth, Edmonton officials modestly constructed a separate hockey arena and convention center in the 1970s.
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Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2011/03/if_you_dont_build_it_.html
 
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