Views on the proposed new Chelsea stadium design?

[Ashberto]

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-12/01/chelsea-new-s tamford-bridge-stadium-plans (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-12/01/chelsea-new-stamford-bridge-stadium-plans)

Bold, ugly from a distance, but clad in brick, which is nice, and the lofty butresses look good from underneath. They remind me a little bit of Lords.

https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/chelsea-3.png?w=620&h=417&crop=1

https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/chelsea-3.jpg?w=620&h=442&crop=1

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

So entirely appropriate then.

http://i0.wp.com/selectitaly.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/MI-Milano-1964-stazione-centrale-e1402076178371.jpg

[Berni]

That, on the other hand, looks like an overgrown regional arts centre.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Pat Vegas]

communist looking building.

And before someone asks I am not talking about the Mosque.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Pat Vegas]

or maybe veterans stadium that was demolished in the USA

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR6zE9vuxw8sCiOQeZ_L8M6zBDcca7AC bGh4-1O0z5uv6jAyJeOIw

[Ashberto]

Also Milan station frontage and concourse is French in style, surely.

Magnificent arches and roof over the platforms.

http://www.picken.com/img/s4/v68/p1184656524-3.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

[Pat Vegas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The concourse didn't feel French. It felt... brutal. And fascist. Which was clearly the effect they were aiming for. That's what architecture is, really, isn't it? It's not to do with whether the thing is made of brick or marble, or whether it's square or curved, it's about how the architect manipulates your emotions.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/madrid/kvesp0516s.jpg

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Ashberto]

But yes, were it rendered in concrete I can see why the stadium might be descibed as Brutalist.

(Etymology of Brutalism refers to concrete rather than brutality.)

[Classic Jorge]

I'm betting it's from their favourite salute rather than the owner's name.

http://afaireland.yolasite.com/resources/RangersFans.jpg http://therepublikofmancunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Nazi-salute.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

A lesson learnt, there.

[Ashberto]

Seriously, I am intrigued by this building you mention. I presume it is on the Harringay or Hackney sides of FP not the Islington side, or I would know it?

[Classic Jorge]

There's a multilevel platfrom entrance bit up the side of the old station leading to a world of RENFE based delights.

Train travel in spain is amaaaaaaaaaazing

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

I'm not saying they are incredibly alike or anything. Just brick. and archey.

http://www.hopkins.co.uk/usr/library/images/main/94/ms_db_n7_a3print.jpg

[Pat Vegas]

This is one I have visited in Italy.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Stazione_di_Luino.jpg

Small town doesn't need such a massive station.

[Pat Vegas]

I saw communist loosely. But that' was my wife's opinion.

And she loves Marx.

[Berni]

of being beneath a railway viaduct - only the denizens are even more pissed.

And it's 'Mound' Stand, of course. But I'm sure you knew that and it was just a typo.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

Not saying she's old, of course.

I grew up with that place at the bottom of my road. I wouldnt say it was communist but it was certainly brutally clacisist, all grey stone and high windows.

[Ashberto]

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4994/img69352.jpg

Darlington. :cloud9:

[Classic Jorge]

York station has a pleasing curved platform set up

[Ashberto]

Not really communist tbf. More Roman Catholic and Classical really.

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/32/90/4329009_53ea38b8.jpg

[Pat Vegas]

[Classic Jorge]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

Hell in a handcart imo.