Aviva Stadium,Dublin

[The Real Laoislad]

I got to have a tour of the new Aviva stadium yesterday,its a fantastic looking stadium.
Anyway here are a few pictures I took,the grass is just starting to grow so wasn't allowed on the pitch.

[Dinny Breen]

pretty impressive

[GalwayBayBoy]

Looks great even though the small stand still looks a bit silly although you can understand why it's like that. The backyards of the properties behind it go right up to the stadium.





Still feel it should have been 60,000 capacity minimum.

[sammymaguire]

does look the part, but it also does look like a bedpan from that other thread

where has the wee cotage in the corner gone  

[The Worker]

Should be known as Lansdowne Rd

[The Subbie]

Should be known as Lansdowne Rd

Beat me to it worker, i will never ever refer to it by its whore name, still fair play to them they did a fine job even if it is about 25,000 short of been a proper world class facility.
The bit I found most interesting is that in 50 years time( i think) it reverts to the ownership of the IRFU, most likely the FAI will still be tipping about the place looking for a home.

[magickingdom]

Should be known as Lansdowne Rd

Beat me to it worker, i will never ever refer to it by its whore name, still fair play to them they did a fine job even if it is about 25,000 short of been a proper world class facility.
The bit I found most interesting is that in 50 years time( i think) it reverts to the ownership of the IRFU, most likely the FAI will still be tipping about the place looking for a home.

where did you see that? ive wondered why the irfu would hand over half their stadium to the fai. looks fantastic btw, thanks for the photos LL

[Donnellys Hollow]

Seriously lads? Did they let the Transition Year student on work experience design it?

Those trusses on the roof look awful and will surely restrict viewing from the upper tiers.

Aviva written on the seats? 

No terracing either? The terracing used to make the old Lansdowne. There was always a rocking atmosphere on them for the old 5N matches.

I stand by my judgement on the other thread:   

Bring him to the new Deluxe aviva Sadium.....then give him a good kick in the hole and and a dart ticket north to see the a real top class stadium built by muck savages....haha

Bedpan:


Aviva Stadium:

[thejuice]

Those trusses on the roof look awful and will surely restrict viewing from the upper tiers.

Funny thats the first thing I noticed, the angles and the pillars they are standing on don't look great and they do seem to be hanging quite low.

But none the less a fine stadium. Don't know when I'll ever get a chance to go to it though. Last time I was in the old one was for Oasis. Maybe the NFL will bring a game over, fingers crossed.

[INDIANA]

Agreed DH. Got a tour of it as our company has a box there. Steaming pile of shite. Anyone sitting on the top deck can't see all of the pitch because they can to compromise the design of the stadium for the cottages on one side of the stadium. Awful design and an awful waste of our money for that level of architecture. Then again with the FAI involved- could it ever have been anything else. Too bloody small as well. 50,000? you could get that even when we were crap at rugby. 38,000 seats to the ordinary punter only.

[The Real Laoislad]

Agreed DH. Got a tour of it as our company has a box there. Steaming pile of shite. Anyone sitting on the top deck can't see all of the pitch because they can to compromise the design of the stadium for the cottages on one side of the stadium. Awful design and an awful waste of our money for that level of architecture. Then again with the FAI involved- could it ever have been anything else. Too bloody small as well. 50,000? you could get that even when we were crap at rugby. 38,000 seats to the ordinary punter only.

[cokers]

Those trusses on the roof look awful and will surely restrict viewing from the upper tiers.

Funny thats the first thing I noticed, the angles and the pillars they are standing on don't look great and they do seem to be hanging quite low.

But none the less a fine stadium. Don't know when I'll ever get a chance to go to it though. Last time I was in the old one was for Oasis. Maybe the NFL will bring a game over, fingers crossed.

Same here. I cant see the NFL being interested though. A college game can draw 100,000 plus.

[thejuice]

But  Dan Rooney might want a game in Ireland I'd say, will probably be played in Croker though. Maybe we can play the Shamrock bowl played there next year. This year its in Tallaght stadium.

[AZOffaly]

If the NFL comes to Ireland, it will come to Croker. 80,000 capacity at least is what the NFL wants for games in Europe and you'd fill it easy enough with European fans.

The stadium looks nice, but a bit 'outre'. I'd be seriously pissed if I lived in some of those houses nearby. They're probably worth a pretty penny (or at least cost a pretty penny) and this huge glass house is now looming over you.

The end where it dips down looks very odd, and as mentioned there seems to be a chance of restricted views in places.

Anyhow, it looks nice, like a version of the Allianz Arena in Munich, and it will always be Lansdowne Road to me

[Billys Boots]

I know that the FAI are saying to anyone who's worried about 'views' to come for a stadium tour.  I'd be extremely surprised, in this day and age (the Joe Duffy epoch), if anyone would build a stadium where everyone didn't have a decent view of the pitch.