Cathedral of Football

[Wonderwall]

Great from Mike Wedderburn this morning

Watch on youtube.com

[Ted Hughes]

Mike Wedderburn is a top geezer. Brilliant.

You can see on that vid, they have already got some of the concrete in on the bottom of the 3rd tier, where the pointy things were in the vid I posted in the expansion thread the other day.

[Bluedj]

Got to say, it looks really impressive from the footage

[clippo22]

Excited to see this in the flesh next year, first game v Chelsea, should be a cracking atmosphere!

[Nigels Tackle]

Excited to see this in the flesh next year, first game v Chelsea, should be a cracking atmosphere!

the removal of rockwool will help

[sheblue]

Did SKY just do something remotely nice about us there.............

[BlueinBosnia]

Where's Wedderburn from, incidentally? He's got an odd mix of accents - a bit Manc/Northwestern, a pit RP/public school and a bit West Indies (although this might be a hybridisation of the Manc & RP), if I'm not mistaken.

[Wonderwall]

Where's Wedderburn from, incidentally? He's got an odd mix of accents - a bit Manc/Northwestern, a pit RP/public school and a bit West Indies (although this might be a hybridisation of the Manc & RP), if I'm not mistaken.

no idea, but his wiki page says he was a fast bowler for Hampshire and also played Rugby for Harlequins. Every day's a school day

[Ted Hughes]

Excited to see this in the flesh next year, first game v Chelsea, should be a cracking atmosphere!

the removal of rockwool will help

Indeed it will.

http://www.rockwool.co.uk/case+studies/ ... na?lang=en

[twosips]

Are they actually removing the rockwool? Or is it wishful thinking on both of your behalfs?

[Ted Hughes]

Are they actually removing the rockwool? Or is it wishful thinking on both of your behalfs?

I think he's just being sarcastic as he perhaps doesn't understand about sound absorption, but I'm serious, as I do. Apologies if that's unfair.

But It's from the 'expansion' thread & probably should be in there, but it looks like the old roof is full of what appears to be rockwool, & I pointed out that they use it in sound absorbtion (others mentioned it is fire retardent so also used for that purpose in building). It is possible the panels are designed, not just to be fireproof, or to keep sound in, but also to absorb sound. That could be purely for avoidence of outside noise pollution, or could be intended to approve the acoustics by stopping sound reflections, thus making the structure desireable for concerts etc. You can design panels which let sound in, & not so much out.

The new roof so far does not seem to have a similar build, so should be much more reflective. How much difference it makes in a building that size, at one end, I will have to wait & see, might not be much at all, but in a smaller structure, the acoustics would be spectacularly different.

I think there was an improvement from where I'm sat, as soon as some of the roof was removed & the structure behind filled in a bit..

[Ted Hughes]

Concrete fully in on top of pointy thingys, ready for more rows of seats, run off at Colin Bell stand being dug out. Are there already, or are they putting posh seats in cb lower, like in the prawn sandwich section ? Look different to us pleb's seats on that picture.

[twosips]

The really fussy, neat freak inside me hates the fact that the roof's natural curve doesn't fit with the new tier. It just suddenly juts up to join the new heightened roof. Gutted </3

[sheblue]

Looking very good, pity though they couldnt have put some seats in those corners. They look a bit bleak.

[patrickblue]

The really fussy, neat freak inside me hates the fact that the roof's natural curve doesn't fit with the new tier. It just suddenly juts up to join the new heightened roof. Gutted </3

Are you really female?
If so, what sort of wallpaper should they use?

[twosips]

Nah m8, im just fabulous.

Ha. I'm not actually genuinely gutted, but it'd be nice if it had the smooth gradual curves still. Doesn't look as classy this way. Ah well.

[iwasthere2012]

Nah m8, im just fabulous.

Ha. I'm not actually genuinely gutted, but it'd be nice if it had smooth curve still. Doesn't look as classy this way. Ah well.

Like a lot of times when you think 'those smooth curves are delightful'...not to mention the 'boat race'
Probably when you get inside the ground with a few pints inside you you'll think the roof's curves are heavenly and the facelift really works.

[Ted Hughes]

Looking very good, pity though they couldnt have put some seats in those corners. They look a bit bleak.

Two ginormous video screens going there.

[iwasthere2012]

Looking very good, pity though they couldnt have put some seats in those corners. They look a bit bleak.

Two ginormous video screens going there.

A lovely pair I'm sure, to go with the curves.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

I love the architectural term "pointy thingys" that Ted used a little earlier in this thread.

Nicely technical indeed; impressively descriptive.