Re: Okay, here's a dumb question... | |
Hey guys....architecture grad here.
clonomaniac and isufan22 are right, we want the very best people working on this. But I can also tell you that these figures for improvements aren't shocking in any manner.......building for the public at this scale costs a lot of money. Simple things we take for granted like bathrooms, for example, are extremely expensive and can drive up the cost emensely. And we're talking a lot of toilets. Since HC and JT have gone unchanged for a while, we'd need even more fixtures to accomedate the same number of people plus the increased numbers Pollard is planning for. And that's just the bathrooms. Then comes concessions, suites, and D1 caliber recruiting eye candy....thus what you can a big price tag. (Any other experts would've probably come out about the same.)
During school, I often thought about how great it would be for students to have such an opportunity, and it's fun to joke about the resources right in front of us, but experience means a lot in designing something of this magnitude and I don't think there would be enough time for students to make up for their lack of experience in stadium design and meet Pollard's timeline... (However that isn't to say it couldn't be done and done well.)
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