Check out this lovely little video by the Beard brothers of A Football Report fame of Montreal’s Stade Saputo. Jordan and Eric visited one of Major League Soccer’s newest venues prior to the club’s true home opener (the Impact actually opened their home schedule at indoor Olympic Stadium) on April …
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Video: Hypebeast Does The Emirates
Check out this gorgeous little video of Arsenal’s home ground as done by the geniuses at Hypebeast. The video is part of the Hypebeast: Spaces series, an exploration of the home lives and creative spaces of some of the most influential people in culture. So not just football stadiums then. …
The Cosmos Stadium Project Gets The Video Animation Treatment
This is, for lack of a better word, “sick.” As in, “dude, that stadium is going to be totally sick when they finish it.” If you’re a fan of American soccer, MLS, NASL, or otherwise, root for this thing to be built because it represents a new level of investment …
The New York Cosmos Are Totally Trying To Show Up MLS With Their Stadium Plans
Screw Las Vegas and their one bone thrown to soccer with that whole “MLS Cup 2015″ thing. This is how you do stadium renderings in a modern America that is fully embracing the footy. “Go big or go home” as the saying goes. The New York Cosmos are going big. …
Las Vegas Stadium Renderings Include MLS Cup 2015
The University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) unveiled plans for a 60,000-seat arena, and made sure to include soccer as one of the proposed sports that could help fill the calendar of a venue at the center of a reported $800 million sports complex. A rendering of soccer at the …
MLS Expansion Scuttle Goes Off The Charts Mental With Plans For $400m Stadium In Tampa
This morning, without so much as a how-do-you-do, Shawn Francis of The Offside Rules dropped this bombshell he uncovered at a website called “Destination Soccer”: A group in Tampa has plans in the works to build a 28,800-seat (expandable to 40,000), retractable roof soccer stadium at an estimated cost of …
Incredibly Expensive, Giant Football-Shaped Stadium Proposed For Qatar
The 2022 World Cup, to be held in Qatar (Seriously? We’re actually going through with this? Whatever.), has become synonymous with financial excess. And now there’s a proposal that makes all the flying clouds and air-conditioned stadiums look like shrewd investments.
Chelsea Release Renderings For Stadium They Won’t Be Building At Battersea Site
Talk about the ultimate stadium porn tease. Cheslea today released images of what a proposed stadium at the Battersea site might have looked like, had Chelsea not lost out on being preferred bidders to redevelop the site to a Malaysian concern. And you know what? These renderings aren’t quite as …
The Houston Dynamo Stadium Ribbon-Cutting Included Lasers and Daft Politicians
There’s a rule, passed down to generation after generation, that when a new building is opened by whomever is responsible for such things, there must be a ribbon-cutting. Never mind that the placement of the ribbon inside the building (on the field, actually, across the face of a goal) makes …
Dynamo Stadium Is Nearly Done, Very Orange
Check out this lovely video walkthrough of the Houston Dynamo’s new stadium, set to open in a month.
These Are Pictures From Inside The Houston Dynamo’s New Stadium
Pretty soon, BBVA Compass stadium will become the thirteenth soccer-specific stadium in MLS and the new home of the Houston Dynamo. But not quite yet. Here are some pics from inside the construction.
This Is The Modern New Design For Fulham’s Riverside Stand
Fulham FC’s Craven Cottage has long been recognized as one of the finest extant examples of early British stadium architecture. Designed by renowned Scottish Architect Archibald Leitch, its century-old wooden seats and tight atmosphere recall the sepia days of English soccer, cramming fans onto loud, rocking terraces.
San Jose Is Hawking Luxury Suites, Which Means They Might Actually Build The Stadium
The San Jose Earthquakes – both this version born in 2008 and the previous version that pulled up stakes for Houston a few years prior – have been trying to build their own stadium since anyone connected to MLS can remember (or, 1996). It looks like it might finally happen, …
The Houston Dynamo’s New Stadium Is Already Starting To Look Like A Thing
It’s got to be a pretty heady time for the soccer fans of Houston, Texas, what with their beloved Dynamo gearing up for an MLS Cup Final on November 20th and their new purpose-built stadium taking shape. The Dynamo broke ground on the new venue in February, and expect to …
Behold The Insane Silverdome Plans That Could Bring MLS To The Motor City
One of the things that makes the constant MLS expansion chatter so intriguing is the tantalizing stadium plans that pop-up in concert with the bids. Detroit might not top most people’s list of candidate cities for an MLS franchise, but their stadium plans, if these renderings are accurate, are top-notch.
