[simplmind02]

At the very minimum, they should add a wrap around the backside of the permanent seating. It would be the perfect spot to commission a mural, TFC/Argos themed or otherwise.

Definitely, we aren't asking for 20,000 additional permanent seats and the temp seats are passable for a tournament. But this was the perfect "excuse" to pump in money and improve the outside like you said. Now we wont see that conversation come up for 10 years.
-lets not even google some high school stadiums in the states lol

 

[simplmind02]

Gestures wildly at numerous things in Ontario, Scarborough RT, Ottawa LRT, GO train, most of road repairs, general contractor apathy.

I understand your point but i wouldnt compare a structure erected with maintenance/weather etc issues.

 

[RS1]

Definitely, we aren't asking for 20,000 additional permanent seats and the temp seats are passable for a tournament. But this was the perfect "excuse" to pump in money and improve the outside like you said. Now we wont see that conversation come up for 10 years.
-lets not even google some high school stadiums in the states lol

Many of those high schools spend that kind of money on those stadiums yet their teachers are buying school supplies with their own money. Sometimes priorities are misplaced.

Although Dougie seems to want to emulate that system, without the spiffy stadiums to gloss over the other problems.

 

[nightstreak]

-lets not even google some high school stadiums in the states lol

I did.

Hence this comment...

None of that was done. It still looks like a high school facility. Forgetting the temporary stands which I acknowledge were necessary, hosting the world in a facility that looks temporary in its entirety is embarrassing for Canada's largest city. It will still look like this during and after the World Cup. What a gigantic missed opportunity.

Extending the yellow brick and red and black panelling to cover the structure to make it more put together isn't asking for much. We seem to have grown so used to mediocrity that people in this city (and in this thread, an architecture forum of all places) dismiss any reasonable requests. It's the friggin WORLD CUP! There is no higher catalyst to build soccer infrastructure by a strict deadline.

 

[Tuscani01]

None of that was done. It still looks like a high school facility. Forgetting the temporary stands which I acknowledge were necessary, hosting the world in a facility that looks temporary in its entirety is embarrassing for Canada's largest city. It will still look like this during and after the World Cup. What a gigantic missed opportunity.

Doha had an entirely temporary stadium built for the World Cup.

 

[nightstreak]

Doha had an entirely temporary stadium built for the World Cup.

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The messaging there was that it was an intentionally temporary stadium that somehow manages to look more put together than our permanent embarrassment.

 

[ash_iwn95]

Gestures wildly at numerous things in Ontario, Scarborough RT, Ottawa LRT, GO train, most of road repairs, general contractor apathy.

The rogers stadium was made entirely of temporary seating and had jumping concert-goers at every concert for a whole summer. We don't need to randomly cast doubts on the quality when this has been done reliably before, even at BMO field itself

 

[Chris R.]

The rogers stadium was made entirely of temporary seating and had jumping concert-goers at every concert for a whole summer. We don't need to randomly cast doubts on the quality when this has been done reliably before, even at BMO field itself

I'd suggest concerts are a tad different than a World Cup soccer game. The fans of which are known to be mad lads.

I'm not casting doubt, just saying it looks sketchy to me and I wouldn't personally trust it.

Please disregard the AI voice:

 

[simplmind02]

For the most part you will never see those types of fans at the world cup, too much of a mix of people from all over, many just there for the experience not even "their team". Those are regular fans from the same city.
There are regulations as well, "persistent standing" is not allowed at wc games.
Either way, some poor engineer/company signed off on that structure and I don't think they plan on going to jail for any reason..

 

[Woodbridge_Heights]

The NFL stadiums aren't really getting a pass though.

A few of them had to renovate in order to make room for field width that FIFA requires. SoFi in LA was one of them. There were actually a few cities that backed out of bidding because of that.

A lot of the ones that ended up as host stadiums have been forced to convert to grass and remove lower sections because of the narrow width.

They aren't getting a pass but they are also not perfect

The biggest factor for FIFA re playing conditions is artificial turf vs real grass. This was a well discussed issue with the Qatar World Cup.

Of the 30 main NFL stadiums all but 8 are natural grass. And of those 8, 1 is a fixed dome (New Orleans), 2 are translucent domes (Minneapolis, and LA), 3 are retractable roofs (Dallas, Indianapolis and Houston) who's locations make growing grass difficult, and 2 are open air (Nashville, and Cincinnati) of which one (Cincinnati) would have difficulty growing grass and the other (Nashville) is soon to be replaced though the new stadium will have a translucent dome and thus still have artificial turf. Of the 8 only Dallas, Houston, and LA wound up being awarded games (and rightfully so)

The other considerations are for media accommodations, which I'm willing to bet all the newest stadiums built in the last 5 yrs easily meet the requirements having been built with hosing the Super Bowl in mind.

Any stadium with artificial turf currently will be required to install temporary real grass in order to conform to FIFA rules. Though I don't think those stadiums owners find the cost to install real grass that expensive, or more likely, they'll twist the arms of local governments to kick in some or all of the money for this.

***EDIT***
I later learned that my original post's information is actually incorrect

 

[juselara02]

I read from someone in twitter saying that the non-temporary suites that are covered with the white cloth at the moment will be ready in 2 weeks. Anyone has any way to confirm or deny this?

 

[ash_iwn95]

I read from someone in twitter saying that the non-temporary suites that are covered with the white cloth at the moment will be ready in 2 weeks. Anyone has any way to confirm or deny this?

Unlikely since the north end wont be completed in time for the march friendlies. Plus they still have to construct the lower temporary stand in front of it

 

[narduch]

It really doesn't matter I don't think they will have any use for them until the World Cup anyways

 

[Mihairokov]

I'd suggest concerts are a tad different than a World Cup soccer game. The fans of which are known to be mad lads.

Hooligans/Ultras/Supporters Groups don't travel for World Cups in the same way they do for club soccer because it's expensive. WC crowds are made up of "good" fans, fans with money, and casual fans who don't care much about it outside of being there.

 

[Red October]

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Hooligans/Ultras/Supporters Groups don't travel for World Cups in the same way they do for club soccer because it's expensive. WC crowds are made up of "good" fans, fans with money, and casual fans who don't care much about it outside of being there.

Unrelated to BMO but a funny story I always enjoyed was that for the 1990 World Cup in Italy they intentionally put all of England's games (group stage anyway) on the island of Sardinia to keep all their hooligan fans sequestered to an island instead of in their major cities.