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[Elixuh]

The drop is fantastic as a viewer in the stadium on that bottom level. Having been at the front of the Gabba and the MCG (no drop) and Giants (drop), actually being able to see the other side of the field while being close to the action is a big win.

I sit top tier tho. What the bottom tier peasants see or don’t see does not concern me.

 

[Section 5]

Not that i would sit in the front row of The Gabba given the choice.
I can only see the benefits of the front row being a meter or more above the playing surface.
Logically people would get a better view of players further away if the front row is raised.
I don't see the players and crowd interaction being diminished. Autographs will be harder to get.
Probably stops/restricts the yahoos getting in the face of players

Allows extra close seating in those high arears for vehicle access, putting in and taking out of the drop in pitch that are 1 plus meter less in height for that first row in those sections

Interchange bench less restrictive sitting behind. Security guards, runners, camera men etc taken out of people's view

Allows for better lighting/information/stats experience at that ground level LED displays. And yes, advertising but you can ignore that easily enough.

 

[Billy ray]

Hopefully they incorporate the contours into the ground and the 100m sprint is downhill!

 

[Perrip]

GIICA has provided some more artist renditions of the stadium in their announcement.
Iconic Queenslander homes inspire architects of new Brisbane Stadium



E: And uploaded this video on their LinkedIn

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[The Flying Belgian]

Unless I’m missing something, it still doesn’t seem entirely clear where in the park this will be. Wonder how far off that might be.

Reading the topography, I think it could be 3 locations. As usual, size of the field is same as the Gabba and athletics config is like the most, stadium outline is a guess, but roughly that of the Gabba. Orange is possible warmup track location Blue is a guess to the size and shape of the swimming centre, magenta is possible train station location.



I think the first makes the most sense. It minimises impact to the rest of the park, is closest for people wanting to walk back to the city and maximises distance to the hospital while still potentially avoiding the York's Hollow waterhole.

 

[Perrip]

Unless I’m missing something, it still doesn’t seem entirely clear where in the park this will be. Wonder how far off that might be.

They addressed this in a press conference this morning. In a valley between Gilchrist Avenue and the QUT campus apparently.
‘We have to find a place to flatten out’: Designs revealed for Brisbane Olympic stadium - Cameron Atfield

The four shortlisted architectural teams had different options, Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority chief executive Simon Crooks said, but generally “most of them landed on the same area” within the park.
“When I first started my role, I thought there was 200,000 cubic metres of earthworks,” he said.
“One of the solutions this team have come up with is only 60,000 cubic metres.
“Now we’ve got to work out what that actually means. We’ve then got to sit down with the master planning architect for the whole precinct, with [the Department of] State Development, and make sure we’ve got it in the right spot, level and location.”
COX Architecture chairman Richard Coulson said the site, in a valley between Gilchrist Avenue and QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus, was the best location for the stadium.
“It’s a hilly site and we have to find a place to sort of flatten out a little bit,” he said.
“When we made that analysis, we were able to look at the quantum of cut and fill and that did influence it, but it’s also about putting in the position to retain as much park as possible.
“So the stadium is a component of the park but it’s not the whole opportunity and so there’s still opportunities around the park for game-day activation, for activities completely separate from the stadium itself.”
Hassall managing principal Lucy O’Driscoll said she did not expect the ultimate stadium design to deviate too much from the vision released on Monday.
“We really spent a lot of time thinking of that particular concept and this idea of having some open edges and really having something that speaks to the climate and the culture of Queensland,” she said.
“I think we’ll really hold on to that concept. The devil’s in the detail – how the roof will be detailed, some of the materiality, where the lift cores go – all of that may change.
“But I think that general concept of it being a really open, democratic, permeable stadium is something that we will definitely fight for through the process because that’s our key concept and we’ll hold on to that.”
[SVP Statement]
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie said the Save Victoria Park group was “loopy”.
“The Save Victoria Park group are just a bunch of NIMBYs that don’t want anything to happen,” he said.
“They believe this park has been activated for years. It wasn’t. It was a golf course. Before it was a golf course, it was a dump, for goodness’ sake.”

 

[dlanod]

I sit top tier tho. What the bottom tier peasants see or don’t see does not concern me.

So why do you care about it existing again?

 

[mighty_lions]

They addressed this in a press conference this morning. In a valley between Gilchrist Avenue and the QUT campus apparently.
‘We have to find a place to flatten out’: Designs revealed for Brisbane Olympic stadium - Cameron Atfield

did you notice the video screen on the video? do you think that could be a real thing it looks apart of the roof struicture? probably what im most interested in is seeing what they do for the video screen

 

[Section 5]

Reading the topography, I think it could be 3 locations. As usual, size of the field is same as the Gabba and athletics config is like the most, stadium outline is a guess, but roughly that of the Gabba. Orange is possible warmup track location Blue is a guess to the size and shape of the swimming centre, magenta is possible train station location.

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I think the first makes the most sense. It minimises impact to the rest of the park, is closest for people wanting to walk back to the city and maximises distance to the hospital while still potentially avoiding the York's Hollow waterhole.

Image 1 is close to the Arcadis location.
I prefer image 2 then 1 as a location with 3 being last. Not sure which is the better orientation, sun wise.

The Pink rectangle is for a new rail station if needed. At present it is the Train Wash Area
I pushed for this in the 100-day review also to my local member Tim Mander, Minister for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Qld Rail has that site down as the best location for a new station if deemed necessary.

The white building marked for the warmup track is gone and the ground now leveled.

 

[The Flying Belgian]

Image 1 is close to the Arcadis location.
I prefer image 2 then 1 as a location with 3 being last. Not sure which is the better orientation, sun wise.

The Pink rectangle is for a new rail station if needed. At present it is the Train Wash Area
I pushed for this in the 100-day review also to my local member Tim Mander, Minister for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Qld Rail has that site down as the best location for a new station if deemed necessary.

The white building marked for the warmup track is gone and the ground now leveled.

Comments about getting the flattest site indicate it'll be option 3, or maybe between 2 or 3. The contours show it will have by far the least earthworks involved.

 

[Elixuh]

So why do you care about it existing again?

Because I don’t like the look of it

 

[dlanod]

Because I don’t like the look of it

It'll look a lot smaller when looking down upon it amongst the peasants.

 

[Elixuh]

It'll look a lot smaller when looking down upon it amongst the peasants.

 

[Elixuh]

Not that i would sit in the front row of The Gabba given the choice.
I can only see the benefits of the front row being a meter or more above the playing surface.
Logically people would get a better view of players further away if the front row is raised.
I don't see the players and crowd interaction being diminished. Autographs will be harder to get.
Probably stops/restricts the yahoos getting in the face of players

Allows extra close seating in those high arears for vehicle access, putting in and taking out of the drop in pitch that are 1 plus meter less in height for that first row in those sections

Interchange bench less restrictive sitting behind. Security guards, runners, camera men etc taken out of people's view

Allows for better lighting/information/stats experience at that ground level LED displays. And yes, advertising but you can ignore that easily enough.

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The bench can be dug in and the seating arrangement different for that section

 

[weevil]

But Save Vic Park kept on telling us the entire park was going to be destroyed forever!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!!!!

 

[weevil]

Because I don’t like the look of it

Okay folks, pack it up, Olympics cancelled.

 

[Elixuh]

Okay folks, pack it up, Olympics cancelled.

It’s definitely on the table

 

[Section 5]

 

[Elixuh]

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When it’s a full house or even when you have 50k+, I’ll be interested to see how the crowd is dispersed. The train station will need to be relatively large as will the bus stops as those renderings have most people coming out on to main access corridors.

Yes I know they’re not final.

As an aside, the stadium looks like a nut.

 

[dlanod]

As an aside, the stadium looks like a nut.

Better make sure the Olympics aren't in No Nut November.

 

[Tassie4ever]

But Save Vic Park kept on telling us the entire park was going to be destroyed forever!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!!!!

Familiar as I unfortunately am with the Green crap deriving from the proposed stadium in Hobart, which is to be built on a disused industrial site, mostly landfill, formerly occupied by a sewerage treatment plant, please be alert for the usual: it is a sacred site the home of the [insert name] tribe; there are many aboriginal middens scattered through the site; or it is the only location of the lesser spotted left-footed toad; or "I usually walk my dog there"; why can't we just leave it as green space?; what about using it as social housing space? ETC ETC.

Assisted of course pro bono by many well-heeled eminent legal persons and others soon to be identified by their ABC as unelected local spokespersons.

Additional points to the poster who can nominate the toad which was the reason the expensive underpass by the Coolangatta airport was built. Not kidding.

 

[Grasshopper17]

Familiar as I unfortunately am with the Green crap deriving from the proposed stadium in Hobart, which is to be built on a disused industrial site, mostly landfill, formerly occupied by a sewerage treatment plant, please be alert for the usual: it is a sacred site the home of the [insert name] tribe; there are many aboriginal middens scattered through the site; or it is the only location of the lesser spotted left-footed toad; or "I usually walk my dog there"; why can't we just leave it as green space?; what about using it as social housing space? ETC ETC.

Assisted of course pro bono by many well-heeled eminent legal persons and others soon to be identified by their ABC as unelected local spokespersons.

Additional points to the poster who can nominate the toad which was the reason the expensive underpass by the Coolangatta airport was built. Not kidding.

You mean the middens in among the rows and rows of heritage listed shipping containers?

 

[Perrip]

Gabba arena bids to close as state backs existing rail for Victoria Park - Cameron Atfield

“We are in procurement up until next week for the Gabba entertainment precinct, which is a 17,000-seat arena,” Bleijie said.
“There’s been great interest, [in a process] led by the Department of State Development, from consortia in the Gabba entertainment precinct.
“That expressions of interest closes next week, so we’ve got another week to go on that.”
...
“We’ve got the architects who’ll be chosen very shortly for the National Aquatic Centre as well. So it’s going in our timeline, it’s going exactly and according to our ’32 delivery plan, which is exactly what we promised Queenslanders.”
...
And Bleijie said it was unlikely that master plan would include a new train station to service the Brisbane Stadium and National Aquatic Centre at Victoria Park.
There had been discussions between police, the Department of Transport and Main Roads and the Brisbane Organising Committee, Bleijie said, and there was confidence there would be “great connectivity without necessarily having a new station”.
“They’re working through the process at the moment and we’re confident with the connectivity, and the work Arup is doing at the moment, that we will have people being able to connect between the RNA, the athletes’ village, the aquatic centre and the Brisbane Stadium quite comfortably,” he said.
Some obstacles remained, however, with the Olympic security overlay. While the Exhibition station would be well utilised in future events, the entire RNA precinct – including the station – will be under an intense security blanket during the Games.
“[The International Olympic Committee] take a very common-sense approach and if we can find solutions to the obstacles or problems, we do that,” Blejie said.

 

[Perrip]

Some more interesting tidbits from the presser today in the Courier Mail. Sounds like working it into the topography is still planned. Also suggests the northern end of Victoria Park near Gilchrist Avenue is where it could be built.

COX Director Richard Coulson said the concept designs incorporated the existing bridge and an additional bridge to “open up the stadium” on non game days.
“If we can fit the stadium properly into the site, then there’s a natural way in which the under-the-bowl servicing, the back tiers and the lower concourse can all engage and spill out into the landscape,” he said.
Hassell’s Lucy O’Drisscoll said the multi-level access was a major feature of the stadium design that would help dissipate traffic and allow for greater accessibility.
“Typically, if a stadium is on a flat site, always just looking for your gate, I think we looked at the topography of Victoria Park and thought, how do we create this as a real opportunity so that you can enter it from a higher level, or you can enter it from low levels,” she said.
“When you’ve got large volumes of people moving, getting them to key points of infrastructure or to restaurants and things like that, so that they stay a little bit longer is an important part to make sure that from every angle, this stadium is extremely accessible to all visitors.”
The exact location of the stadium is yet to be formally locked in, but soil testing has identified the northern end of Victoria Park near Gilchrist Avenue as viable.
GIICA chief executive Simon Crooks said the newly hired architects would now be consulted on the final placement, with early works expected to begin as early as April.
The Victoria Park golf complex will close at some point in mid-2026 to make way for construction.

 

[Chucky_23]

Reading the topography, I think it could be 3 locations. As usual, size of the field is same as the Gabba and athletics config is like the most, stadium outline is a guess, but roughly that of the Gabba. Orange is possible warmup track location Blue is a guess to the size and shape of the swimming centre, magenta is possible train station location.

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I think the first makes the most sense. It minimises impact to the rest of the park, is closest for people wanting to walk back to the city and maximises distance to the hospital while still potentially avoiding the

Pic 1 the only one oriented in a way that would allow a north/south cricket pitch too