I presume things will be sufficiently de-iced for the ceremony today at 2 PM at the stadium site in the East End.
The stadium will have 22,000 seats, and the expansion capacity will be 30,000 over 340,000 square feet.
Populous, which was previously called HOK Sports, also designed Minute Maid Park, Toyota Center and Reliant Stadium. Like those three stadiums, the Sports Authority will be the landlord for the Dynamo’s new stadium.
“Although (it’s) a very simple idea of a stadium, but it gives really sort of a dramatic punch,” [Populous’ Loren] Supp said. “And I think it really sticks out when you look at other stadiums that have been built both for other sports and for soccer worldwide actually.”
You can see pictures there, at Swamplot, and of course on the Dynamo website, where they have a Q&A with the architect. It all sounds quite cool. And someday, barring any malicious acts of Congress, you’ll be able to get there via light rail.
Very cool. Houston is one of the leading cities for soccer in the US and now we’ll have a very nice stadium to boot – I didn’t realize it could also be expanded to 30k seats – that’s great.
Now if they could only air condition the place in July? At least it looks like there will be a lot of shade.