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That the same episode as?
GIRL: What do you do for a living?
CHARLIE: I'm a 'full-on rapist'
GIRL: WHAT!!!!!
CHARLIE: You know, kids, black people, the blind...
GIRL: WHAT!!!!!
CHARLIE: Yeah, you know I help people
GIRL: oh.... a philanthropist
CHARLIE: Yeah, that's what I said
Classic, anyway. For me it's a good sign these images have been released, is it a sign THFC are wanting to get some coffers in? Surely they wouldn't start this if the stadium was delayed? Corporates will want to know exactly when this is applicable from...
Not to be a snob (expect i'll be called a cunt) but corp at the current stadium is pretty crap
The architect masterminding a new home for English football team Tottenham Hotspur – billed by the Premier League club as “the most unique sports and entertainment destination in Europe” – has lifted the lid on how the stadium will create an important hub for the local community.
Speaking to CLAD during a tour of the construction site, Christopher Lee, managing director of stadium architects Populous, said the key driver of the £750m (US$992.8m, €865.7m) White Hart Lane project is to create “a civic building that is physically and emotionally knitted into the local community.”
A plaza to the south of the 61,000-capacity ground will host restaurants, street food stalls, cheese-making shops, five-a-side pitches and a microbrewery producing one million pints of craft beer a year. There will also be a museum dedicated both to the club and the local area and an extreme sports centre featuring Europe’s highest climbing wall and a seven-storey diving tank. According to the club, the entire development will create 3,500 jobs and pump £293m (US$360.5m, €338.2m) into the local economy each year.
“Currently Tottenham doesn’t have a centre,” said Lee. “So we’re creating a space the size of Trafalgar Square that will be open 24 hours a day, linking the east and west side of the stadium.
“The great thing about football clubs is we, the fans, own them. The people who live here should think, ‘This is my club, I walk past it every day and I feel a part of it.’ Creating an accessible public space is important commercially, but it's even more important socially.
“Someone from the club told me that our competition for this stadium isn't the Emirates [the stadium of Tottenham’s bitter rival Woolwich, which was also designed by Populous]. Our competition is the local High Street. The aim is to get fans to come in and to come in earlier, to dine with us and to experience the stadium. On many levels this approach to the community is the thing that’s changed most in the last 15 years of stadium design.”
Lee explained how the design team have drawn inspiration from the old stadiums of England and Europe to create a facility with an electric match-day atmosphere. A tight atmospheric bowl, which places spectators in the north and south stands just 5m (16.4ft) away from the action, and the addition of a 17,000-seat single-tier stand – the largest in the UK – will generate ‘a wall of sound’ that reverberates around the ground. Meanwhile, the acousticians who work on U2’s concerts have also been involved in optimising the sound within the stadium bowl.
“One of the things Daniel Levy [the chairman] was scared of was creating a generic stadium,” said Lee. “He wanted something with character and personality. The old White Hart Lane is such a lovely stadium and so quirky in its nuance. We wanted to incorporate the best bits of traditional English stadiums. That drove the thinking around the single tier, the steepness and the proximity of it all. Daniel would sacrifice various things most clients wouldn't in order to say, ‘Can we make this closer to the pitch?’”
The new stadium will include several other innovative features. The biggest is its retractable 22 tonne grass field, which in 40 minutes can make way for an artificial pitch below to be used for concerts and National Football League fixtures – of which at least two will be held every year for a decade as part of a partnership negotiated by the club and the US league.
For fans with extra money in their pockets, Tottenham has announced the stadium will feature a purpose-built glass-walled Tunnel Club, which allows guests a behind-the-scenes view of the players’ tunnel, and a range of bespoke suites, bars and loges of varying degrees of luxury.
Construction on one section of the ground is progressing. At the end of the current season, the existing stadium will be demolished to make way for the remainder of the new White Hart Lane. When complete in late 2018, it will be the largest club arena in London.
Wembley then....
Tottenham heading for Wembley
Club board due to make final decision on moving this March
Tottenham Hotspur has told Building it will be moving into Wembley stadium to play its home games next season with a final decision on when to leave its historic White Hart Lane ground due this spring.
Speculation has surrounded where the Premier League club will play next season while Mace completes work on its new 61,000 seat stadium on the site of its existing ground ahead of an August 2018 deadline.
Wembley has long been earmarked as Spurs’ favoured location although the club has so far not decided to officially confirm the move.
But the club’s executive director Donna Cullen said Tottenham has signed a heads of agreement with Wembley which is 13 miles away in north-west London and has a capacity of 90,000.
It is understood that Tottenham will make a final decision to leave its current home of more than 100 years this March before it starts sending out renewal forms to season ticket holders the following month.
“The intention is to look to go Wembley for one season,” Cullen said. She added that the club would only move once it was sure the build programme was on track, admitting: “We are being very diligent about it all. We’re just being extra cautious.”
The man in charge of the scheme for project architect Populous, Chris Lee, who also worked on Woolwich’s Emirates stadium, said the job was on schedule but the club said it does not want to begin demolition of its existing ground until it is absolutely sure its replacement is on time.
Cullen added moving out at the end of the season was also dependent on other factors such as work to upgrade nearby White Hart Lane station - to ensure it can cope with the thousands of extra supporters on match days - being done in time for August next year.
The club said it had looked at other options for its one-season relocation including the home of MK Dons, 50 miles up the M1, as well as a ground share with fierce rivals West Ham at the London Stadium in Stratford - but Wembley, where the club played its Champions League games this season, won out because it was the preferred option of fans.
Once the Tottenham board, which includes Cullen, gives the green light to leave this season ‘soft’ demolition - such as stripping out - of the existing ground is expected to begin immediately with work to tear down the main ground starting as soon as it completes its final game of this season, currently scheduled to be against Manchester United on May 13.
Two shifts a day are working over 14 hours a day at the site with around 800 workers currently on it with work being carried out on Saturdays and Sundays as well. Around 1,800 workers will be on the project when it reaches peak this autumn.
Mace has been working at the site since spring 2015 and has access to around two-thirds of the new ground with the remaining third of work - which is on space taken up by the existing ground - given over to the 17,000 seat South stand and the erection of the roof which will be carried out by Buckingham Group. German firm Schlaich Bergermann, which worked on a stadium on its home city of Stuttgart, has been hired to carry out the roof engineering.
Fit out of the general admission areas will begin this April but the more complex fit-out is due to be started by London firm Base and will include Tottenham’s H Club venue, which will be restricted to just 88 members paying £30,000 a year, and its Tunnel Club - which will allow fans to see players coming and going to the changing rooms. This will be restricted to 104 seats with fans being charged £19,000 a year.
Once demolished, the existing ground will be replaced with public space, a hotel and a sports hub which is expected to include a diving tank and climbing wall. Close to 600 residential units will be built at the site under a scheme designed by Allies and Morrison. A grade II listed building at the site, Warmington House, is being turned into a museum depicting local history along with the club’s.
Other firms working on the site include steelwork contractor Severfield, concrete firm Morrisroe and pre-cast firm, Antrim-based Macrete.
Tottenham heading for Wembley
Club board due to make final decision on moving this March
Tottenham Hotspur has told Building it will be moving into Wembley stadium to play its home games next season with a final decision on when to leave its historic White Hart Lane ground due this spring.
Speculation has surrounded where the Premier League club will play next season while Mace completes work on its new 61,000 seat stadium on the site of its existing ground ahead of an August 2018 deadline.
Wembley has long been earmarked as Spurs’ favoured location although the club has so far not decided to officially confirm the move.
But the club’s executive director Donna Cullen said Tottenham has signed a heads of agreement with Wembley which is 13 miles away in north-west London and has a capacity of 90,000.
It is understood that Tottenham will make a final decision to leave its current home of more than 100 years this March before it starts sending out renewal forms to season ticket holders the following month.
“The intention is to look to go Wembley for one season,” Cullen said. She added that the club would only move once it was sure the build programme was on track, admitting: “We are being very diligent about it all. We’re just being extra cautious.”
The man in charge of the scheme for project architect Populous, Chris Lee, who also worked on Woolwich’s Emirates stadium, said the job was on schedule but the club said it does not want to begin demolition of its existing ground until it is absolutely sure its replacement is on time.
Cullen added moving out at the end of the season was also dependent on other factors such as work to upgrade nearby White Hart Lane station - to ensure it can cope with the thousands of extra supporters on match days - being done in time for August next year.
The club said it had looked at other options for its one-season relocation including the home of MK Dons, 50 miles up the M1, as well as a ground share with fierce rivals West Ham at the London Stadium in Stratford - but Wembley, where the club played its Champions League games this season, won out because it was the preferred option of fans.
Once the Tottenham board, which includes Cullen, gives the green light to leave this season ‘soft’ demolition - such as stripping out - of the existing ground is expected to begin immediately with work to tear down the main ground starting as soon as it completes its final game of this season, currently scheduled to be against Manchester United on May 13.
Two shifts a day are working over 14 hours a day at the site with around 800 workers currently on it with work being carried out on Saturdays and Sundays as well. Around 1,800 workers will be on the project when it reaches peak this autumn.
Mace has been working at the site since spring 2015 and has access to around two-thirds of the new ground with the remaining third of work - which is on space taken up by the existing ground - given over to the 17,000 seat South stand and the erection of the roof which will be carried out by Buckingham Group. German firm Schlaich Bergermann, which worked on a stadium on its home city of Stuttgart, has been hired to carry out the roof engineering.
Fit out of the general admission areas will begin this April but the more complex fit-out is due to be started by London firm Base and will include Tottenham’s H Club venue, which will be restricted to just 88 members paying £30,000 a year, and its Tunnel Club - which will allow fans to see players coming and going to the changing rooms. This will be restricted to 104 seats with fans being charged £19,000 a year.
Once demolished, the existing ground will be replaced with public space, a hotel and a sports hub which is expected to include a diving tank and climbing wall. Close to 600 residential units will be built at the site under a scheme designed by Allies and Morrison. A grade II listed building at the site, Warmington House, is being turned into a museum depicting local history along with the club’s.
Other firms working on the site include steelwork contractor Severfield, concrete firm Morrisroe and pre-cast firm, Antrim-based Macrete.
Ok is Son walking around a bar in full kit and shin pads, or is that a fucking glass wall to the tunnel
Ok is Son walking around a bar in full kit and shin pads, or is that a fucking glass wall to the tunnel
It's a glass wall / two-way mirror to the tunnel. I don't quite know what to think of it to be honest.
Odd? haha
It's for Premium members only so that they can watch the players while they can't see them. It's a bit swingers club meets football stadium to me but hey ho.
It's interesting to note that Spurs have been very careful to not share any details at all about the cheap seats. Clearly, this stuff is meant for the corporate suckers, but if someone could get that safe-standing stuff into being, then that South Stand is going to get properly epic (and the official capacity quite bigger).
Anyone know enough about stadium design to know what sort of compromises we have had to made to achieve this?
That is liquid gold in aural form.
If someone has a spare £30,000 to drop on Spurs membership and cheese gloryhole fun they don't deserve that money!
Are you kidding me? With the new stadium and it's advertised features: Tottenham fan + money = kid in a toy factory. I can't wait.
I know Dortmund's is 1:1.5 and the ST mentioned that in their meetings with the club that they are well aware of that possibility.
Here's the kicker, you can only buy tunnel club tickets in pairs...Well, I wouldn't say double the price compared to ordinary tickets is that bad
Good luck with that.
With all the Melts on here I guarantee a massive queue outside that particular room.
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