Would be kind of cool. Would be more cool if he Dome was more centrally located. Could be Houston's Central Park. Not that I live in Houston, but its a good idea. May cost tons, though. Let's go for it. Biodome that ish up.
With the Astrodome, the people in charge haven't received enough bribes er I mean lobbying to reach an informed decision.
Ehh okay. Great things have happened in Candle Stick Park but it is and wasn't considered anything approaching the Astrodome from an architectural stand point or from a historical importance stand point.
That's about the truth of it. This crap has gone on for long enough. Either make it a water park or blow it up. The end.
But at the end of the day, it was a stadium... and while it was the "first" domed stadium, it still was part of a slew of poorly designed multi-purpose cookie-cutter stadiums that actually set things back from a stadium architectural standpoint (astroturf and all...). And its overall sports history doesn't compare to Candlestick, Yankee Stadium or the Boston Garden. People could say that Skydome (first retractable roof stadium) and Camden Yards (started the retro ballpark building) will end up being just as significant in impacting how stadiums are built from here on out (with their "innovations" having a largely positive effect, unlike the Astrodome's)... and I guarantee you that nobody will blink an eye when its time to replace those stadiums (although with Camden, they built it in such a way to be almost "timeless") Again, memorialize it somehow... keep the shell, or keep a ring of the "wall" in place... but turning it into an "indoor park" (whatever the hell that is) is not going to preserve its memory any better (and likely ends up being a failure of a project).
Ha. It would make more sense for it to be a train terminal, connecting Metro and the hypothetical HSR train to Dallas or other regional links. I wonder why the OTC doesn't just put permanent offices there, or perhaps invests in some sort of multi-purpose incubator for energy technologies.
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2014/08/26/newastrodome-proposal-reportedly-focuses-on.html An indoor park? Who wants to go to that?
I don't think anyone has ever associated the term "great" when referring to anything having to do outdoors in Houston
Posted this on HAIF ...will share here as well. I'm in favor of Judge Emmett's idea and am glad someone in this city is trying to save this city's greatest landmark. And so, as an NRG Employee, I decided to do something in the effort to save the Dome. My email to Elizabeth Killinger. Will send an edited version to Ed Emmett as well.
I wrote him once in favor of the Slattery plan. To my surprise he wrote back. He claimed exposing the shell could allow high winds to get under the roof which could shift the key. Slattery's plan did have support structures built inside. I would guess support structures would be needed to support the extra weight of the NRG panels. But that central key is the most important part of that roof. If it fails, bye bye astrodome. Nice idea though. Also, make sure everything you write is factual. He's a little sassy if you get a detail wrong. I got my organizations mixed up and he spent a paragraph correcting me.
