Rob Hammond linked it on 247: http://www.hailstate.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=16800&ATCLID=206326973
Really impressive.
Really impressive.
Got this from 247....link to the new football facility
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Pretty amazing. Sucks it'll be out of date in 5 years because of the arms race that is the SEC these days. Either way, big time step forward for MSU.
The building in general looks great, but the follow through on some of the design is lacking. Can we not get something to hide all the wires in the video editing room? Also why are the monitors mounted that high if they guy is working primarily sitting at his desk on his laptop.
Like the use of all the rulon / armstrong woodworks ceilings. The MSTATE logo on the ceiling of the locker room is nice, but they should have a projector shooting it to the carpet below in white light like a bat signal. Also that center portion of the room could have been raised a little to give a little more head room there. Looks squatty to me. The fry reglet column covers in the main lobby are pretty much straight out of 1987.
The cowbells are a great touch. Along with the Bulldog logo in the auditorium seats.
The exterior is well done, but the window boxes are a bit much. They could have used one more revision to cut down on some of the bulk.
As a football only facility, I would rate it as an A.
Like the use of all the rulon / armstrong woodworks ceilings. The MSTATE logo on the ceiling of the locker room is nice, but they should have a projector shooting it to the carpet below in white light like a bat signal. Also that center portion of the room could have been raised a little to give a little more head room there. Looks squatty to me. The fry reglet column covers in the main lobby are pretty much straight out of 1987.
The cowbells are a great touch. Along with the Bulldog logo in the auditorium seats.
The exterior is well done, but the window boxes are a bit much. They could have used one more revision to cut down on some of the bulk.
As a football only facility, I would rate it as an A.
I was in it a couple of weeks ago when...
...the audio/visual contractor was finishing up work in the main auditorium. He had the Avengers playing on the screen while tweaking the system. It rivaled any theatre I've ever been in. Really amazing.
The weightroom is on par with Alabama's new one. They have 4 more stations with 20 compared to our 16, but in quality ours is every bit as nice.
At this point, guys jumping from the SEC to the NFL will see a downgrading of facilities available to them.
...the audio/visual contractor was finishing up work in the main auditorium. He had the Avengers playing on the screen while tweaking the system. It rivaled any theatre I've ever been in. Really amazing.
The weightroom is on par with Alabama's new one. They have 4 more stations with 20 compared to our 16, but in quality ours is every bit as nice.
At this point, guys jumping from the SEC to the NFL will see a downgrading of facilities available to them.
Hopefully this means a lot more alumni come back for summer training, and for whatever reason more guys like Brandon Marshall train with our players.
Advent does some neat stuff. They also just put up some large art like that (not quite as big) on each side of the basketball practice facility of each of the mens and womens players. We shot the football pictures shortly before Christmas, and I promptly LOST the memory card between The Hump and my house....After tearing apart my truck and my house looking for it, I had to admit that I lost it and get players again and redo everything a couple days later.....funny now...sucked then. So if anybody ran across and 8GB CF card with pics that look like those, please return it to me at a game. I'll let you have my media pass to a single game in any sport as a reward**
As an Architect I try not to nit pick among other non-Architects.
It makes me seem like a giant douche. But I'm with you on the column covers, ceilings, etc... I think the monitors are for teh coaches to watch over the shoulder of hte video tech, but that's just my guess. The biggest thing that I saw that drives me crazy was the door frame in Mullen's office. The door height is just about 3 inches short of the interior panelling. Not having door frames match horizontal reveals is bush league. Also the drywall wrapped columns in one of the work out areas are gonna last about 3 weeks before they need to be replaced.
But overall it's a great facility.
(not how I would have designed, but I don't do sports facilities)
It makes me seem like a giant douche. But I'm with you on the column covers, ceilings, etc... I think the monitors are for teh coaches to watch over the shoulder of hte video tech, but that's just my guess. The biggest thing that I saw that drives me crazy was the door frame in Mullen's office. The door height is just about 3 inches short of the interior panelling. Not having door frames match horizontal reveals is bush league. Also the drywall wrapped columns in one of the work out areas are gonna last about 3 weeks before they need to be replaced.
But overall it's a great facility.
(not how I would have designed, but I don't do sports facilities)
Corner of 12 and 182. That spot SORELY needed a makeover, from the highway and from the baseball field. Going to look good. Always looked crappy over there, now everything will begin to come together.
First, it's way easier to comment on someone else's design after the fact. I try not to talk smack about other firms designs, but I only point that stuff out because I have made all of those mistakes myself. Looking at a built product is easy to see things that given an opportunity the designer would change. All in all the facility is pretty bad ***.