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I share the feeling of loss around the old stadium being ripped into but really the dominant emotion is definitely excitement for the new place to be ready.

Also curiosity over how the place will look in August this year; that hole in the corner needs to be segregated somehow, I'm interested to see how that will be tackled and exactly how much demo will have been done?

Exciting times, anyway.
 
Arty fantastic pics. Well done on putting that together.
Now let's just sit back and think how much work has been done in what say from Dec 2015. So that is 7mths of build.

What that says to me is after the 16/17 yr is that a following one yr completion is going to be a real push.

I'm sure Levy had it worked out prior the Brexit, he had planned Polish builders coming in after the standard day work.... Now by crickey we need that one yr build for financial reasons.
 
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Wonder where our players will run to celebrate goals scored at that end now.........90% of the time they used to run to the corner that will now be empty
 
Didn't think we could do that while the capacity was over 30k...

You are spot on as there was a statement a few weeks ago stating that if the Stadium holds 30,000 you have to offer a minimum 3,000 to away supporters.
Not sure how we have got away with this but then again we have Daniel Levy pulling the strings so anything is possible ( business wise )
 
You are spot on as there was a statement a few weeks ago stating that if the Stadium holds 30,000 you have to offer a minimum 3,000 to away supporters.
Not sure how we have got away with this but then again we have Daniel Levy pulling the strings so anything is possible ( business wise )


There's also a rule that you have to give 15% of the stadium capacity to away fans for domestic cup matches...but Woolwich seem to have got away with that one against us for the past 10 years.
 
You are spot on as there was a statement a few weeks ago stating that if the Stadium holds 30,000 you have to offer a minimum 3,000 to away supporters.
Not sure how we have got away with this but then again we have Daniel Levy pulling the strings so anything is possible ( business wise )

I didn't actually know that was agreed when I posted the original message, makes the chances in the ballot a tiny bit bigger eh.
 
Shame we aren't a year or two further behind in the process - this looks class



Could Suprastadio put Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham to shame with its revolutionary design?
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Suprastadio claim to be revolutionising stadium design

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If moving home is one of life’s most stressful events then Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and West Ham United are proving that the stadium project is its footballing equivalent.

Whether it be people being ‘forced’ out of their houses or businesses, supporter unrest over their plans, or rows over taxpayer subsidies, four of the country’s biggest clubs have faced some major headaches while attempting to expand their respective footprints.

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West Ham will move to the Olympic stadium next season CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
There is a single root cause for most of these problems, one that is having an increasing impact when it comes to the construction or redevelopment of sports venues: space.

Work on the new Main Stand at Anfield necessitated the demolition of nearby homes, the rebuilding of White Hart Lane witnessed compulsory purchase orders of surrounding businesses, while Chelsea are resorting to digging below street level to squeeze a new stadium into the existing Stamford Bridge site.

Upton Park, meanwhile, was so penned in that West Ham had no choice but to move to the Olympic Stadium, something which presented them with the very different problem of their fans being much further away from the action.

Now, a revolutionary new stadium design is promising to solve both the space and sightline issues for football clubs – or anyone looking to redevelop or build spectator seating areas.

Suprastadio claims to have done this by turning the concept of a traditional grandstand on its head, folding it back in on itself as its number of tiers increases.

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The wave-like design is the brainchild of the German-based Interpol Studios, a multi-disciplinary agency which includes an architecture division.

Those behind Suprastadio boast that its grandstands take up one third less ground space than those of a conventional stadium and, just as importantly, they allow many more spectators a closer view of the action.

In a 55,000-seater arena, Suprastadio’s inventors estimate 97 per cent of ticket-holders would be less than 50 metres from the pitch, compared with less than two-thirds in a traditional ground.

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A Kop-style stand
They also claim the design helps trap sound and amplifies the atmosphere generated by those present and that its smaller volume makes it cheaper to run.

They insist it is no more expensive to construct than a conventional stadium and can be either built as an enclosed arena or as individual grandstands alongside traditional single-tier Kop-style stands.

“In all the calculations we’ve done on projects, we come up with a similar price factors as regular stadiums,” Robin Houcken, a managing partner of Interpol, told Inside Sport.

He was also confident the design met all necessary health and safety requirements and complied with the UK’s Sports Ground Safety Authority ‘Green Guide’.

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He said one of its unique safety features – its exit stairway system – has been patented in the United States, with Europe expected to follow suit this year.

That could make it impossible to copy.

The company claims to have already received interest from two Premier League clubs as it canvasses for business around the world, both inside and outside football.

Houcken refused to rule out tendering for Everton’s proposed new stadium or even that planned by David Beckham for his Major League Soccer franchise in Miami.

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The design would not be limited to football stadia
He also revealed he was in talks to build tennis and ice hockey venues – “where you hardly see the ball or the puck if you’re far away” – in Europe.

Suprastadio grandstands could be incorporated at racecourses and motor racing circuits but it is at future mega-events where such a concept could have the biggest impact, particularly the Olympic Games.

Houcken was devastated, therefore, when Interpol-based Hamburg voted against bidding to stage the 2024 edition in a referendum held last year.

“It was paradise for us if the referendum had gone positively,” he said.
 
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