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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I think distinct, iconic, and actually visually appealling can be very different things though.
Barclay's looks a lot better in photos than it does in person IMO. I've been there a couple times and never came way impressed thinking "Woah that's a nice looking building". And the inside of that building was very bland IMO.
I've never been to T-Mobile and agree that it's more unique, and does a good job in leveraging it's LED boards, but really it's still just a round stadium. Not sure it's really that unique.
The Saddledome is only really unique in that it's old and the standard it was built under is no longer used, but the "Saddle" shape was a staple of other buildings that were built during that time period.
And will be interesting to see what the Climate Pledge arena looks like, but yeah that one is keeping the Key Arena's unique shape.
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... to add to this, while the new Climate Pledge Arena looks good from the renders I think the finished product is also limited by the fact that it is a massive renovation of the existing Key Arena. The Key Arena was "distinctive" and "iconic," but beauty is so often in the eye of the beholder. Even the new structure looks weirdly out of place to me, and does not really shake my impression that it is an old arena with a face-lift.