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Originally Posted by Muta
Ok, this is a comment that grinds my gears. How can you claim it's a 'second rate amateur facility'? Are you talking about the design? If so, did you see the floor plans / sections / elevations? I take it you haven't. Calling this a 'second rate facility' is incredibly short-sighted given the information released to date on it and an insult to the American and Canadian designers that have built up careers designing sports facilities.
You can hate CalgaryNEXT and the presentation of it all you want, you can hate the renderings, you can hate how it was executed by the Flames... but calling it a 'second rate amateur facility' is incredibly disrespectful because CalgaryNEXT pushed the boundaries of new sports design / construction innovation. It is a conjoined facility acting as an anchor for a new city district, and it is unlike anything proposed in the world. You haven't even seen the floor plans, to the proposed amenities in greater detail.
I'd like you to explain your comment if you can. 'Second rate' is such a weird comment to make and I'd like to know how the facility design itself garnered a comment like that. I take it you are an architect and know how to design a better one?
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Not to crush your belief that this is revolutionary, but it basically sounds like a nicer version of the Kibbie Dome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbie_Dome
For real, you're acting like this is one of the most staggeringly beautiful, incredibly proposed facilities on earth. Which, if I were selling a lemon, is exactly how I'd refer to it. The amateur comment is spot on though, it's supposed to an amateur field house, and it hosts a second rate pro sports team. Expecting something akin to what the Vikings have is beyond ludicrous, and would ultimately be a catastrophic waste of money. The absolute most that should be spent on any new CFL stadium is $175-200 million. Hamilton made it work for $145 million, so can we.
And for the record, you have been overhyping this thing to death for a long time, and in the end you kind of looked foolish for doing so once we actually saw the end product. You continued to promise us we'd be blown away, instead we mostly concluded it blew. Sorry you don't like that most people have been severely underwhelmed by it, but that's just how it is.