ToffeeWeb - Season 2006-07

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Re: Karl Masters

Karl, you hit the nail on the head with your letter regarding Koln's Rhein Energie Stadium. Indeed it does look like a soulless piece of architecture built out of mecano.

Also, your spot on with your point about it being bad enough we are being moved away from Goodison Park. The board must make up for this with a stadium to be proud of or they can forget the whole thing, it won't receive the backing.

What baffles me further though is how we can go from looking at stadiums such as Ajax's 'ArenA' in Amsterdam (the inspiration behind the design for Everton's doomed King's Dock project) to looking at a stadium that, lets face it, looks like a Tesco superstore!

In the words of a fellow Evertonian who has his head well and truly screwed on; 'It's like giving up the penthouse suite for a council flat.'

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum. Hopefully the powers that be at the club know their latin!
Dominic Fitzpatrick, Wallasey Posted 03/06/2007 at 00:58:42

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I think it was at the AGM that Bill Kenwright said something along the lines of it being a new project (from Kings Dock) and therefore the proposed design would be completely different. Not sure if there's some permission issue with not being able to re-use the proposed KD design or whether the Board doesn't want to evoke memories of a good thing that slipped away but they do seem to want to push a totally different architectural style.
Lyndon

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