urbanMSP

Lots of plugs for Lucas Oil Stadium.....

Underwhelmed. Maybe I'll learn to love it??

my only worry is the half of the roof that is solid... will it just be a gigantic white thing? How will that look from the north?

my only worry is the half of the roof that is solid... will it just be a gigantic white thing? How will that look from the north?

As bad as the metrodome did from the south or east?

my only worry is the half of the roof that is solid... will it just be a gigantic white thing? How will that look from the north?

As bad as the metrodome did from the south or east?

... or north or west

thought id post pics

My first reaction is that it looks like a giant 1960s modernist suburban church. Not sure how I feel about that.

http://www.vikings.com/media-vault/phot ... d0e381d0d0

Plenty of pictures up now. Someone else will have to do the image gallery upload, I'm not on here enough to know how.

this one really show how tall it will be!

I realize these are preliminary drawings, but the green space is horrible in these renderings - hopefully all that surrounding concrete will get worked out.

The day Gopher baseball sells out the dome is the day I win the Powerball : ).

Btw, the damn thing reminds me of the UofMN alumni center.

Jesus. Wtf is this shit?

I flat out love it. Much better than I thought.

Sweet

Tough crowd in here. I think it's very cool.

I couldn't catch everything they said about the brief park moment: did they propose more or less breaking of the street grid than we had anticipated?

Maybe it will be better when it is built but the more I look at these renderings, the more worried I become. When Target Field's renderings were released it was obvious that it was going to be an iconic stadium, but I am not feeling this one. It is inelegant.

Better than I expected. The architect did his homework with its indigenous quality. It says "Minnesota" and is unique. Striking and iconic, but not garish or over the top. Works well on multiple levels. You can't ask for anything more.

Looking at image 4 of 32 in the image gallery, they must have mis-aligned the street grid for this rendering, right? It shows 4th Street aligned with the giant window, but it should really be 5th, I think.

The more I examine the images the better I like it. For such a massive building there is some grace to the elevations and I like how it dances on the site rather than plopping down on it. And to have Tom Fisher actually like it - that's saying a lot.

I'm surprised at the stats - Largest glass roof in the world, largest pivoting glass doors in the world.

My first reaction is that it looks like a giant 1960s modernist suburban church. Not sure how I feel about that.

he he....my thoughts exactly...I used to go to one of these as a kid....I thought it was ugly in 1981, and still do.....