The big East Downtown orangish blob that will be Dynamo Stadium takes on a more definite shape in these new drawings. That’s a giant steel mesh wrapping the 22,000-seat soccer and football venue. Inside: 34 luxury suites, 1,000 “club” seats, and a stadium club. Separate canopies connected to the exterior mesh hang over both sidelines and a stage on the south end. The Houston Business Journal‘s Allison Wollam reports that orange lights will shine on the stadium at night — but the tower lighting shown in earlier renderings is gone from the latest images. Maybe, as a Dynamo fan on HAIF suggests, the place is just gonna glow from within.
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What’s gonna go on under the lights — or during daytime, under the big orange sun? Dynamo president Chris Canetti counts 20 regular-season Dynamo soccer games a year, 4 international soccer matches, six TSU home football games, 5 to 6 concerts — and maybe a boxing match, just to humor team owner Oscar De La Hoya. Plus maybe a high-school championship game or 2. A groundbreaking ceremony for the stadium, on the property bounded by Texas, Walker, Dowling, and Hutchins streets, has been scheduled for January 29th.
- Dynamo stadium nears home stretch [Houston Business Journal]
- Dynamo Stadium coverage [Swamplot]
Renderings: Populous, via Manhattan Construction
I like it.
Architect’s favorite movie: Ghostbusters II
Blob? At least it doesn’t have that Hill Country corrugated slant-roof HEB thing happening. I’m excited about this, and thankfully they haven’t named it Amigo Energy Stadium…yet.
It’s happening! It’s happening!
See you at the (latest) ground-breaking Sat the 29th!
I hope the drawing is accurate in that there will be decent sized plazas on the corners so they don’t have to shut down all the streets every time there is a game, a la Minute Maid.
Im ready to glow orange!!!
this place is gonna be so sick
I like the way it is looking in these drawings. EaDo values of all the properties close to the site are strong now.
side plazas? not shut down streets? I don’t ever remember the Astros shutting down streets for a game.
Looks cool now, but ugly in 10 yrs. Bright side: it’ll make for a great demolition spectacle in 30 years when we call it outmoded (think Astrodome).
I am still rather pissed about this stadium. I’d rather have my tax dollars were spent on textbooks and mass transit. Even the onerous drainage fee fiasco made more sense than this publicly-funded stadium deal.
From what I understand the Dynamo team is paying for the majority of the stadium, the city if paying for infrastructure improvements in the area around the stadium. I think reliant & minute maid were paid by the city, but I could be wrong, just what I remember…
Only one streets ever gets shut down for an Astros game and that one street gone does not add any to traffic since it’s rarely used outside of vehicles servicing the stadium or Diamond Club patrons parking.
Orangie orangie yum yum orangie orangie pie…..weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee me love orangie
Don’t forget the spiders
Architectural Blueprints are out! Looks like Red Bull Arena in Harrison, NJ, sans full roof and suburban location. Looks beautiful!
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This is where it will be built at.
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From Old school:
I hope the drawing is accurate in that there will be decent sized plazas on the corners so they don’t have to shut down all the streets every time there is a game, a la Minute Maid.
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This.
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From Jessie M:
side plazas? not shut down streets? I don’t ever remember the Astros shutting down streets for a game.
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The majority of the traffic around the closed streets when they had enough fans to close the streets surrounding the stadium.
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From Superdave:
Looks cool now, but ugly in 10 yrs. Bright side: it’ll make for a great demolition spectacle in 30 years when we call it outmoded (think Astrodome).
I am still rather pissed about this stadium. I’d rather have my tax dollars were spent on textbooks and mass transit. Even the onerous drainage fee fiasco made more sense than this publicly-funded stadium deal.
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From Veso:
From what I understand [—>]the Dynamo team is paying for the majority of the stadium, the city if paying for infrastructure improvements in the area around the stadium. I think reliant & minute maid were paid by the city[<—], but I could be wrong, just what I remember…
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Anything arrowed in is correct.