New Stadium upgrade progress?

[Dawgonit]

Looks like typical 1970s architecture like Ruston City Hall and the bank across the street.

Let's play "Which 1970's building looks most like our coming endzone building?"

Option 1: Ruston City Hall




Option 2: Chase Bank across the street from City Hall





Option 3: University Center at UNO





Please feel free to post more options if you have any. I am sure there will be many contemporary examples posted because this is a very prevalent style nowadays and it's so popular as you can see by all the positive comments about the building in this thread.

Also if anyone can photoshop a gigantic videoboard on top of all these buildings, that'd be appreciated. We could really make a good comparison that way.

[champion110]

It is not as bad as the examples to me, but I was hoping they would just copy the other side, especially on the inside of the stadium. Plus, I wish they would put some big platforms on each side that connect to the stadium.

Regardless, though, the stadium will never look great until the close in the student side and make it look good driving up or by it. Closing the underbelly of a stadium does wonders....

[bulldog009]

This is what happens when you keep giving the projects to the same firm over and over again - there are other architectural firms with Tech graduates. But they keep giving everything to TBA for athletics. When the baseball field was destroyed, I immediately got on the phone and tried to get things rolling to pursue the new project for my previous firm, a Sports Architecture firm in Dallas with multiple Tech graduates, and couldn't even begin to get any where with it. TBA is their go to for whatever reason, so expect everything to look exactly the same.

[qng001]

It is not as bad as the examples to me, but I was hoping they would just copy the other side, especially on the inside of the stadium. Plus, I wish they would put some big platforms on each side that connect to the stadium.

Regardless, though, the stadium will never look great until the close in the student side and make it look good driving up or by it. Closing the underbelly of a stadium does wonders....

The problem is that we did not expand the footprint of the stadium to allow additional sq footage of the NEZ. We are working in the confinement of Stadium Dr.

Now that we have the Champions Plaza and the NEZ building, there is not much room to create a concourse to connect the two sides. We would have to take some the road and parking lot around the stadium to achieve that (which I don't mind if we were to grow our venue).

As for aesthetic, it's okay. The problem is that we push for a separate look for athletics and not even consider the architectural elements from academic side of our school. I think they could add some creativity and compose a modern look with nods to some of our academic buildings.

[Bayou Dawg]

I agree, we need to connect the east and west sides with some sort of walkway.

[JuBru]

Why would the new building “move the needle backwards.”

The buildings they replaced were gross and old.

Because

The new buildings seem devoid of any personality other than cheap, designed and built to be replaced every other decade (but won’t be).

The buildings needed to be replaced, or refurbished. But we went with perhaps the worst possible option after the "not doing anything" option.

[dawg80]

I agree, we need to connect the east and west sides with some sort of walkway.

I know! we should build a hill with a sidewalk on it, to allow the connection, and then all the organizations, like the Greeks, can place huge wooden signs on it.

[techman05]

I know! we should build a hill with a sidewalk on it, to allow the connection, and then all the organizations, like the Greeks, can place huge wooden signs on it.

Hey, it’s good enough for Laffy Taffy. We should do it too.

[futurerancher]

That is just awful. Ugly is not a strong enough word for it.

Dear LaTech. You have one of the best and aesthetically pleasing end zone facilities in all of college football. Please don't let your AD build this abomination in the NEZ. You deserve much better.

Signed: Closet LaTech fan.