There were no flashy artists -with a 'Trident' of Masten or huge 'umbrella' Luifel when Everton started to create a stadium to replace Goodison Park.
In contrast to the £ 2 billion blockbuster 'Eiffel Tower of the North' by Manchester United, the Merseyside Club just had their architect phase a series of fan workshops in a parish hall at the bottom of Goodison Road.
About 1,000 supporters attended that audience with the American architect Dan Meis, a month after fans of West Ham protested about their unloved New London Stadium Home, which had lost the rabid atmosphere of Upton Park. Another 10,000 Everton fans responded to a detailed study about what the most important attributes of the planned Bramley Moore Dock Stadium should be. The new house 'making a fort' was the most important determining principle.
Seven years later, the fruits of that work were unveiled on Sunday to 25,000 fans who attended a test event at what the Everton Stadium will be. They discovered the steep gradient of the stands, or 'rake', designed to relax the intensity of Goodison. A huge home end for 12-15,000 fans who is steeper and closer to the field than the 'Yellow Wall' by Borussia Dortmund. And nods the maker of Goodison Archibald Leitch's characteristic Criss -Cross balcony designs – engraved in masonry, handrails overlooking the mersey river and the aluminum panels that form the spectacular new roof.
That respect for the past extends to the outside of the stadium. Meis said at those workshops that he wanted the building to look like 'it grew out of the dock'. The prominent use of traditional materials such as brick and wood at the location on the water at 1.8 miles from Goodison, leaves it so well on the location.
An excellent video that was placed by one fan on Monday, showing how things had risen from the dock was viewed tens of thousands of times.
When asked about the futuristic master plan of Sir Norman Foster for the new Old Trafford on Sunday, Meis warned against the pasting of a brash location in Manchester who ignored the rich history of Old Trafford.
He said, “I hope that other clubs that think of new buildings will really take a drink in what we did not try to do a gigantic, exaggerated thing that could be somewhere in the world, but” we're going to be in the middle of Manchester “.”
The new stadium is built in the face of enormous opportunities. The approval of the planning was protected in the first weeks of COVID and if the senior executive of the Club Colin Chong would not have been of great importance to protect the pre-pandemic of raw materials, the costs might have risen to a priceless level.
Size seems to be everything in the new world of Super Stadiums. Where 10 years ago, signing the best players who matter the most, now manifest egos in bricks and mortar.
The so-called 'New Trafford' Stadium's computer-generated Visuals-For first seen by United fans during the recent publicity drive of Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a leisure palace where football happens. Everton told me that it is all about football.
“Proximity to the field for fans was important,” said Meis. 'Steepness was important. Type of “no hassle.” We did not want a lot of commercial things to stand in the way.
“The direction of the club was very early” we are not Wembley – or Tottenham in that regard. ” This is about a good football stadium, although you naturally need to be commercially viable and to help grow in all the things you need from a new building.
'Evidently [Manchester United] Must make a decision about what is good for them and there is a lot of ambition there. I am a big fan of Norman Foster and he has been a hero of mine forever, so I wish them the best. But I think I can say that this stadium shows what I believe about English football and English football stadiums more than anything. '
The new stadium apron is not limited to football. The square was made before it offers 17,000 people – larger than Pier Head from Liverpool. Dominating that place is a restored building of degree II that once driven the Dok. Everton knows its history, as the Anthem of Goodison says. The global club in the M62 would be wise to not forget their own.
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