10-10-2025, 04:01 PM
(10-10-2025, 02:58 PM)JohnG Wrote: Surely they'd replace the bottom of the PT stand, after building the top of the new behind and over the existing.
I'm sure they would. You wouldn't built a stand costing hundreds of millions of pounds and leave that piece-of-shit structure in place. I'm amazed no one had the foresight to think about how the phasing would work when the original design was put together.
That first design by Benoy looked really basic on a number of levels to me. For example, the corner building proposed in the Trent end corner looked like it had been shoved in there as an afterthought. It related to neither the new stand nor the existing Trent end, nor the view from the bridge. It's floor plan made no sense. I'm amazed it didn't receive more scrutiny from the planners, it was poor. And the stand configuration was bog standard. It was as basic as it could be.
Let's hope this new stand has some architectural merit, and there's some decent master planning going on this time around.