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Originally Posted by Stormer
If you look at Google Earth you will see that two BC Place stadiums could sit on the rail yards and still leave room for double tracks and lots of excess lands for other building and parking structures.
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Wholistic architecture is more than just being able to drop a structure of a certain dimension onto a plot of land. It's about situating it and surrounding it appropriately to achieve a certain impression, certain functionality, and certain flow. From the aeriel view, you could drop Taylor Field over Victoria Park. But you wouldn't want to.
Look at the rail site more closely. The widest parcel (from Albert Street to the east) is already spoken for with development fully under way. The area gets thinner as you travel east. There's talk of a hotel at the east end, no doubt linked by passageway to the casino.
So in the middle third section you could drop in a Taylor Field sized stadium... barely. You'd have to give up the plaza, the practice field, tailgating, and parking however. Maybe we could use the abandoned Taylor Field grounds for these things, and just take the monorail over to the downtown dome for the Rolling Stones, Eagles, Beatles & Led Zeppelin concerts every weekend.
Of course I jest. But I would really rather see a nice structure that rises out of the prairie (like Taylor Field) than to try and squeeze something into too small a parcel and is surrounded by architecture that makes it seem smaller than it really is.