Noah's ArcI mean, concept art is literally designed with the sole purpose of attracting interest in a project without regard for practicality or budgetary constraints. Have you seen the original concept art for Hilton Coliseum? The Ribcage of Doom?
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Has been a lot of planned Hilton Renovations thru the years that have never happened unfortunately.
Interesting, I had never seen this. I'd prefer the practice facility nearer to Hilton just to add more density but in reality it doesn't matter, I'm sure they all live out there anyway and it's easier to go to the current facility whenever they want in its current location.
Hypothetically in my dream world it would be north of scheman or Fisher theatre. I don't actually like how in that rendering Hilton gets obscured by other structures. Hilton looks badass on the outside and covering it up with additions would be silly.
I believe that this was not the first rendering. This one is almost exactly how the stadium looked when it opened in 1975. So I assume this one is a much later rendering.
I don’t know about the research park, but I’ve been to their offices by Green Hills. I think the Alumni building is nicer than those offices. I would think it would be better to move to the Alumni Center and ditch the current foundation offices.
Talk about a catastrophic architectural disaster. In my Architecture class at ISU, this would've bombed. No respect for the existing structure. The beginning of looking like every other school where they just start cramming things together. Give me 3 hours and I could do so much better. Seriously. Not difficult to improve on this.
Well, in 93 it would have been fitting.
This one really needs to still happen. Hilton from a fan experience is really poor. Don’t really mess with anything interior to the arena but the concourses are really really bad. Concessions don’t have to be great but they need to be better than they are. The fact that you really only have two options for food really hurts any fan experience.
The alumni center is semi-public space. The foundation doesn't want to be bothered with that.
I hate to give Texas any due, but their new arena handles concessions amazingly and was priced very competitively with restaurants around the venue.
This would have been the last yr they were in the conference.
Yep, add a lot of glass to get some light in and then I think a lot of work was to be done on the concourse/food stands etc.
Covid & then NIL pretty much killed it.
the more and more arenas i visit of our peers, the more disappointed i grow with how lackluster our concession options are
Think of it more like Wrigley Field
Horrible experience, but historic and one of a kind.
Yeah, concessions are pretty much the same as they were when I was in school in the 90s. And guessing that they were the same then as they were when the facilities opened.
Texas was brand new that yr but they did it right. Bodega like areas with some type of quick scan thing if I remember right. The beers where we pregamed were the same cost as in the arena. Multiple food choices from name brand restaurants. It was amazing
