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Richmond Football Club reveals Punt Rd makeover
Mark Stevens | Herald-Sun | July 23, 2008
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THIS is the first glimpse of the futuristic re-development that will transform Punt Rd Oval.
The redevelopment, boosted last week by a $6.75 million injection from the Federal Government, will be completed by mid-2010.
Demolition of the old Richmond social club is due to start in January.
Richmond chief executive Steven Wright yesterday said the bold new design was inspired by jubilant scenes in the rooms.
"The concept of this design came about from a picture of the players linking arms and singing the team song after the game," Wright said.
It will be a dramatic meeting of new and old, with the original Jack Dyer stand to remain.
"This will be a 21st century building joined by a 19th century building," Wright said.
The budget for the redevelopment is $20 million.
It will include a training facility and indigenous centre of excellence.
"We are looking nationally and internationally so we can develop a world-class facility using best practice," Wright said.
"The football department will be at the forefront of cutting-edge and high-performance technology.
"Punt Rd will once again become the centre of community life for the residents of inner Melbourne."
The rebuilding of Richmond's Punt Road headquarters began with the earlier $7 million construction of the indoor pool, offices and administration centre.
The new indigenous institute will focus on elite football and will be open to boys and girls.
Richmond hopes to encourage indigenous youth to stay at school longer before going on to further education and training.
The cornerstone of the bold initiative will be the creation of the REAL (Richmond Emerging Aboriginal Leaders) camps.
Through the camps, Richmond hopes to provide experiences in four areas -- personal development, skill acquisition, role modelling and mentoring, and health and lifestyle education.
Up to 300 indigenous youths will complete programs at Punt Rd every year.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,24062912-19742,00.html
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It looks bloody terrible, will look dated very quickly
It's like it's tried to rip off the Fed Square design but badly
If you want something modern look towards Southern Cross Station instead, lots of glass for a classy look, not artsy and poo
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agree looks bloody shocking, the architect is a freakin loonatic.
Seriously hope the supporters let the club know this is not the way to go down.
future maintenance would be costly on such a design & it just dont fit in
will draw anger against this design for sure from surrounding property owners
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Ugh! I'm not particularly impressed with that either. And I don't care much for the rationale - inspired by players linking arms etc. I don't care whether it's inspired to look like a premiership cup - It either looks good or it doesn't.
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its all been approved by council
the funds have been allocated
We will have the best facilities in the league
The look is a matter of taste, what happens inside is what really matters,
Enjoy tiger fans, the club has never been in a better position to get the best out of the playing list
No poo Stephen Wright is a fricken genius
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always had a ambition to buy one of those double storey properties across from Punt rd ground just down a little from the pub.
There a couple of them slightly rundown & l like old houses like that. oneday it will happen :thumbsup be it me or my son, maybe my youngest daughter when she marries Dale Thomas she said. :lol :rollin
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First I dont think this design is all that bad, maybe It will look better in real life rather than on a pc. Anyway I was a supporter of that Garage Door design a while back. What ever happened to the Garage Door lol. ;D
By the way whats the odds of sponsors logos appearing on the huge white panels on the front of the new building. I reckon sponsors logos on all the panels would bring in a very decent sum.
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Love the Colorbond sheeting look on the walls. :lol All we need now is a few cows, a heeler and a Massey Ferguson strategically placed on the oval.
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It looks bloody terrible, will look dated very quickly
It's like it's tried to rip off the Fed Square design but badly
If you want something modern look towards Southern Cross Station instead, lots of glass for a classy look, not artsy and pooh
who designed that piece of poo?
It amazes me at how much some people get paid for utter crap designs.
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The Sash is running the wrong way too.
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The look is a matter of taste, what happens inside is what really matters,
I won't disagree with you on either point because that's absolutely true. Like you I'm happy that our players can access cutting edge facilities but appearances count for something - particularly when you're so well positioned and you have a lot of traffic going past every day.
We have to ask ourselves what kind of impression we want to make on passers-by.
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brackets - au contraire, it's fabulous
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The look is a matter of taste
I agree... a matter of poor taste
Seriously, for $20 million, we deserve something that will at least still look good in 10 years.
Commission the design out to a university as a competion or something, at least then you'll get a range of suggestions and it won't cost a fortune.
Could even give it to a preschool fingerpainting class and they'd come up with something better than what we've got proposed now.
Massive dissapointment
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looks like a aerodynamically friendly shearing shed :lol
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after reading about the plyers linking arms crap i REALLY wanna smash the architect
for feeding us total BS just to get the gig.
betcha he doesn't even follow sport let alone our club.
How stupid does he think we are?
YOU hole ! :banghead
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Could even give it to a preschool fingerpainting class and they'd come up with something better than what we've got proposed now.
Massive dissapointment
100 % correct - What a sham
"Modern architecture" :lol :rollin = what was dumped on our doorstep a few years back :(
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the problem is that the whole facade looks like a tin roof look. its not a total disaster but it is disappointing. for 20 million youd atleast expect to get a decent facade rather than tin roof sheeting.
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always had a ambition to buy one of those double storey properties across from Punt rd ground just down a little from the pub.
There a couple of them slightly rundown & l like old houses like that. oneday it will happen :thumbsup be it me or my son, maybe my youngest daughter when she marries Dale Thomas she said. :lol :rollin
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Isnt that the massage parlour Monk ? :gobdrop
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What a shocker.
I don't like Fed Square, don't like Spencer St Station or whatever it's called today and this ... well it out does them all
There is a beautiful old stand and then you have that thing
It just makes me wanna do this :chuck
In the immortal words of Dr. Phil......RFC? What were you thinking ??? :gobdrop
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Makes you want to barrack for the boys at the Lexus Centre
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Makes you want to barrack for the boys at the Lexus Centre
Let's not go insane Jack
Actually if you want to look at a first class facility that I reckon you could argue is as good if not better than the Lexus centre - check out the Whitten Oval development, a WIP but a beauty
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WP - Fed Square certainly polarises opinion and I certainly wondered what the hell they were doing when it was going up, but it does work and was very well designed. This Punt Road proposal is just a cheap knock off though.
LAB actually won an international design competition to do Fed square. This is just a local architect thinking that weird shapes thrown together is modern and creative when it's the complete opposite.
At the end of the day, if you want something that won't look dated, just try and make it classy. 101 Collins was designed and built almost 20 years ago, but you'd never know it. It's still one of the best looking buildings in the Melbourne skyline. Perhaps it's unfair to compare something like that to a lowrise development, but the theory still applies.
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WP - Fed Square certainly polarises opinion and I certainly wondered what the hell they were doing when it was going up, but it does work and was very well designed. This Punt Road proposal is just a cheap knock off though.
LAB actually won an international design competition to do Fed square. This is just a local architect thinking that weird shapes thrown together is modern and creative when it's the complete opposite.
Have worked with LAB in the past, are all up themselves. Come from a different world. lol
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always had a ambition to buy one of those double storey properties across from Punt rd ground just down a little from the pub.
There a couple of them slightly rundown & l like old houses like that. oneday it will happen :thumbsup be it me or my son, maybe my youngest daughter when she marries Dale Thomas she said. :lol :rollin
(http://images.domain.com.au/img/200834/4757/5662037_1_TE.JPG?mod=080304-160002)
Isnt that the massage parlour Monk ? :gobdrop
l dont know but l let you know when l come out :lol :thumbsup
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WP - Fed Square certainly polarises opinion and I certainly wondered what the hell they were doing when it was going up, but it does work and was very well designed. This Punt Road proposal is just a cheap knock off though.
LAB actually won an international design competition to do Fed square. This is just a local architect thinking that weird shapes thrown together is modern and creative when it's the complete opposite.
Have worked with LAB in the past, are all up themselves. Come from a different world. lol
Who gives a crap?
Just a tad hypocritical too and by a tad, I mean a lot.
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Here's one of the Achitects home...which he designed
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Hey it might actually end up being Melbourne's own version of the Sydney Opera House with a 30 year non corrosive warranty. :lol On the plus side, it would be a Graffiti Taggers nightmare. Aluminium, Aluminium everywhere, with not a place to tag. :rollin
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Hey it might actually end up being Melbourne's own version of the Sydney Opera House with a 30 year non corrosive warranty. :lol On the plus side, it would be a Graffiti Taggers nightmare. Aluminium, Aluminium everywhere, with not a place to tag. :rollin
I'll be refering to it as,"The Yellow Peril"
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It's $20m worth of Lego ;D.
No flow or connection with the existing buildings and as HMH said they couldn't even get the sash the right way around :wallywink.
Oh well let's hope the money has been spent of the most important stuff which is inside on the facilities for the players.
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always had a ambition to buy one of those double storey properties across from Punt rd ground just down a little from the pub.
There a couple of them slightly rundown & l like old houses like that. oneday it will happen :thumbsup be it me or my son, maybe my youngest daughter when she marries Dale Thomas she said. :lol :rollin
(http://images.domain.com.au/img/200834/4757/5662037_1_TE.JPG?mod=080304-160002)
Isnt that the massage parlour Monk ? :gobdrop
l dont know but l let you know when l come out :lol :thumbsup
Jack's right :gobdrop.
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always had a ambition to buy one of those double storey properties across from Punt rd ground just down a little from the pub.
There a couple of them slightly rundown & l like old houses like that. oneday it will happen :thumbsup be it me or my son, maybe my youngest daughter when she marries Dale Thomas she said. :lol :rollin
(http://images.domain.com.au/img/200834/4757/5662037_1_TE.JPG?mod=080304-160002)
Isnt that the massage parlour Monk ? :gobdrop
l dont know but l let you know when l come out :lol :thumbsup
Jack's right :gobdrop.
;D its the one next to it that l'm interested in, l be traveling to Melbourne this morning, so if l get time l will get down thier & take a few pics. l cant check out the other cause the wife be with me ;D anyway seems you & jack get in there often
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If you driving along Brunton Avenue and stop at the traffic lights at Punt Road, its directly in front of you. No Monk, I havent been in, parking is a problem, lol :lol
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always had a ambition to buy one of those double storey properties across from Punt rd ground just down a little from the pub.
There a couple of them slightly rundown & l like old houses like that. oneday it will happen :thumbsup be it me or my son, maybe my youngest daughter when she marries Dale Thomas she said. :lol :rollin
(http://images.domain.com.au/img/200834/4757/5662037_1_TE.JPG?mod=080304-160002)
Isnt that the massage parlour Monk ? :gobdrop
l dont know but l let you know when l come out :lol :thumbsup
Jack's right :gobdrop.
;D its the one next to it that l'm interested in
TM's just worked out why it was going cheaper than the others :lol
Now you know why the new bicycle shop on Punt Rd when it advertises on tv fuzzy outs the building next to it ;)
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Horrible
:-[
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TM's just worked out why it was going cheaper than the others :lol
Now you know why the new bicycle shop on Punt Rd when it advertises on tv fuzzy outs the building next to it ;)
got my own Sattelite TV there MT so dont see ads on our TV ;D + we got local channels that dont have Melbourne ads but we can view Melbourne channels & thats fuzzy sometimes so we prob miss the bike shop :lol :lol :lol :thumbsup
never got time yesterday to go look, just back this morning & down again tomorrow oh the driving & petrol costs ;D anyway thats classed as buisness trip ;D
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The look is a matter of taste
All of life is a dispute over matters of taste - Nietzsche
FWIW I don't mind it. You got the AFL draft and all these other centralising forces basically making all of the clubs the same. We could have built something generic but we decided to do something different. We could have built something old-fashioned to suit the JD stand but this shows we aren't looking to the past anymore.
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If we have to put up something ugly just to be different, I'd rather just follow the crowd thanks
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Driving home last night and looking accross, it wont be any worse than the old social club thats for sure.
Never liked Fed Square, but never really liked the Gas & Fuel towers either. :rollin
Will get used to it I spose, as long as there is space aside for the members to have pre and post game drinks and the kids have a kick of a footy on the oval.
A checkboard dancefloor and sticky carpet wouldn't go astray either :rollin
We are still in best position of all the vic clubs as far as I am concerned.
We will have History mixed with our future at our original home right next door to our new home. No other club can have that ;D
Being right on the doorstep of the G we should be able to use this facility to its absolute max draining as much $$$ out of opposition supporters as we possibly can.
And most of all as much as possible, ensuring the Tigers exsitence for many years to come, so I can still watch them from the other side once I have departed.
Still ugly but meh :gotigers
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If we have to put up something ugly just to be different, I'd rather just follow the crowd thanks
Truth is, we aren't going to know if its ugly for a while. Many pieces of architecture are intially, in public and critical opinion, ugly. Need I remind you of what they had to say about a certain tower in Paris in the late 19th century? Who would have thought the Golden Gate bridge could once be described as "an eye-sore to those living and a betrayal of future generations". The point is that the context has not yet been formed. Change often sits uneasy with the human mind. Overcoming the fear of change is a worthwhile pursuit.
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Change often sits uneasy with the human mind. Overcoming the fear of change is a worthwhile pursuit.
Thats very deep Jake lol
I actually dont mind it too much, you take a risk with anything that looks different, most people wont like it first up, us humans have a very high resistance to change. I reckon it will grow on us....and maybe we could get the Yellow Peril and have it as a garden ornament there lol ;)
Edit: to correct quote
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How old is this thing and how famous ...
Was astonished to say the least, When I started a new job in stkilda rd 4 years ago to find it lives just around the corner in Sturt St (http://planetsmilies.net/shocked-smiley-17123.gif)
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How old is this thing and how famous ...
Was astonished to say the least, When I started a new job in stkilda rd 4 years ago to find it lives just around the corner in Sturt St (http://planetsmilies.net/shocked-smiley-17123.gif)
Yep, the yellow peril is hidden just off sturt street , in front of the worst building in Melb ::)
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Yep, the yellow peril is hidden just off sturt street , in front of the worst building in Melb ::)
Looks like some sort of needle haven & a home for the homeless & tagger spot
All the money they spend on poo like this could be put forward to helping the homeless
OMFG is this next to the helipad near the Yarra River across from the Casino, l'm sure l walked past this somewhere maybe going to the Aquarium
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As Malcolm blight would say . .
What a wank. ;D
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When the renavations go on I think that there should be a members walk. Where we paid whatever it will cost to have our name imprinted onto bricks. And these could lead up towards anywhere. But at least we all could walk along the path and look for our names. Just would add a little more human interest to it.
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When the renavations go on I think that there should be a members walk. Where we paid whatever it will cost to have our name imprinted onto bricks. And these could lead up towards anywhere. But at least we all could walk along the path and look for our names. Just would add a little more human interest to it.
They have one in front of the old social club. Not sure what's going to happen to it once the area is demolished to make way for the new building for the players' facilities.