i'll try and move the stadium discussion to this thread.
did anyone catch the piece on the david asper owned CKND newscast pointing out that the conceptual interior image of the canadinns stadium proposal was taken from the phoenix cardinal's stadium.
talk about dirty pool.
the lead designer for the canad inns stadium will be peter eisenman, the very same architect who designed cardinal's stadium.....of course this was not mentioned.
there is absolutely nothing wrong with using your own previous work as conceptual images to show general character and feel.....these are not designs..they are concepts....asper's concept would not be the design either. if they think that the final building will have sloped glass walls and an oval all glass hotel, they are sadly mistaken....these are concepts, not designs.
thre were several images of cardinal's stadium in the RFP....number ten took a tour of the facility and eisenman was chosen as the designer because of that stadium.
the newscast had a reporter at the forks holding two images asking what people thought.
the slant of the report was that if the cardinal's stadium cost 400 million to build then how can canadinns be saying that their proposal would only be 250 million....trying to cast doubt on its feasibility.
of course they failed to mention that the phoenix stadium is more than twice the size of the proposed stadium...it has a retractable roof, not a fixed one, it has hundreds of luxury suites and a moveable natural grass field....there is no comparasin in the scope of the two projects.
i wonder how canad inns will respond...