Re: Stadium LRT Station, Ped Bridge & Plaza (MSFA block)
Posted: August 9th, 2016, 3:59 pm
What bothers me about this plaza more than the bridge and the jumble around the light rail stop is the overwhelming expanse of concrete between the stadium and the Commons. It's brutally hot and oppressive on steamy summer days, and I imagine it being equally miserable during cold, windy, winter days.
It would have helped a lot just to line Chicago Avenue with trees. Simple. I'm wondering if this wasn't done because the powers that be didn't want to interfere with the view of their magnificent structure. I commented at one point that the stadium was something of an exercise in megalomania. Even if, as it turns out, the stadium is fairly well done architecturally, the barren plazas that open a vista of that massive prow are indicative of this attitude.
It would have helped a lot just to line Chicago Avenue with trees. Simple. I'm wondering if this wasn't done because the powers that be didn't want to interfere with the view of their magnificent structure. I commented at one point that the stadium was something of an exercise in megalomania. Even if, as it turns out, the stadium is fairly well done architecturally, the barren plazas that open a vista of that massive prow are indicative of this attitude.