Richmond Football Club reveals Punt Rd makeover (Herald-Sun)

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Richmond Football Club reveals Punt Rd makeover
Mark Stevens | Herald-Sun | July 23, 2008



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

[Infamy]

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

[Tigermonk]

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

[Obelix]

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. 

[blaisee]

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

[Tigermonk]

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  be it me or my son, maybe my youngest daughter when she marries Dale Thomas she said.   

[Ramps]

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.

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.

[tiga]

Love the Colorbond sheeting look on the walls.  All we need now is a few cows, a heeler and a Massey Ferguson strategically placed on the oval.

[Ox]

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.

[Hes My Hero]

The Sash is running the wrong way too.

[Obelix]

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.  

[mjs]

brackets - au contraire, it's fabulous

[Infamy]

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

[Ox]

looks like a aerodynamically friendly shearing shed

[Ox]

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 !