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News Jack Dyer Stand -Demolition Has Begun
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- Oct 19, 2020
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It is preserved. The club has not made any effort to work out a solution.
The starting point should be that the grandstand should be untouchable.
Yeah there's not much.
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Of the club? Of the ground? Of football in Richmond?
All of those things are more important and older than the stand.
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You are very wrong.
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The starting point is the stand should be a Stand.
Then get me some links to read please. What I've tried searching has come up with very very little
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Doesn't matter if it's functional or not. The ground will look like GWS or Gold Coast without that stand.
I have respect for our history.
There is no stronger history than connection to and spirit of place, maybe blood, but it's pretty hard to build a football club with blood ...
Man made structures will come and go, but the spirit of place lives on forever as long as stories are told and shared.
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'Richmond Football Club has denied reports it would leave Punt Rd Oval if a $65 million redevelopment was knocked back by the City of Melbourne.'
An hour ago from the herald-hun.
An hour ago from the herald-hun.
I mean you have no idea what the club tried to do in the early stages of the design process
Keeping a giant non functional stand just for the ‘vibe’ is bonkers
Exactly right. If that stand could be retained and expanded to suit the clubs future needs, I’m absolutely certain that Benny Gale and the board would have gone down that path.
They’ve elected to knock it over and start from scratch as the costs would, in my opinion, have been extremely prohibitive. The stand as it is now is unusable and I’m sure the cost of improving it to suit our needs stops it being retained.
Totally behind the Club with this decision as the history of the stand and it’s significance to the Richmond Football Club would clearly have been taken into consideration.
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- Oct 4, 2016
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don't think there's any way the club will decamp. a bit of gamesmanship here. there'll b a compromise found.
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Orange bellied possum breeding ground.
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Melbourne City council - Attach a giant ass monstrosity of a Hotel to the side of the heritage listed MCG ✔
Melbourne City council - Demolish a condemned unusable building just a few hundred meters away
Also If the MCG has been allowed by council to demolish their Stands for a century there really isn't any argument they could win if this went to court
Melbourne City council - Demolish a condemned unusable building just a few hundred meters away
Also If the MCG has been allowed by council to demolish their Stands for a century there really isn't any argument they could win if this went to court
- Oct 29, 2017
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My understanding is the former MCG members pavillion, albiet built later in the 1920s, had heritage protection and was obviously demolished in the early-mid 2000's.
I would argue the members pavillion had more of a historic value to Melbournians than our stand and was in better condition before its demolition.
Architecturally it was built in a different era, but that doesn't necessarily make it of less architectural value.
That aside, my opinion on our stand is whilst it's shell is visually pretty (minus the advertising), components are dilapidated and the long term viability of the club who built the stand is of greater importance than its heritage value, and aspects of its heritage character can be re-used in construction. Story telling, materials and photos of the stand can also be incorporated into the museum.
As best as a win-win as it gets.
I would argue the members pavillion had more of a historic value to Melbournians than our stand and was in better condition before its demolition.
Architecturally it was built in a different era, but that doesn't necessarily make it of less architectural value.
That aside, my opinion on our stand is whilst it's shell is visually pretty (minus the advertising), components are dilapidated and the long term viability of the club who built the stand is of greater importance than its heritage value, and aspects of its heritage character can be re-used in construction. Story telling, materials and photos of the stand can also be incorporated into the museum.
As best as a win-win as it gets.
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- Oct 11, 2003
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they should bomb the joint and build something more user friendly, and whilst they are at it fix up richmond station it is a disaster. the worlds best sporting city has the worldds worst train station.....
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It does matter if its functional. You are also ignoring there is a massive difference between poor and excellent modern architecture and design, and the function good architecture and brings.
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I'm always embarrassed taking friends from interstate and overseas there. Maybe they're keeping it sh!t for Romper Stomper 2. He lives!!!!!
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It's not 'giant'. It takes up small amount of space. We don't need MCG dimensions or a community hub for non-Afl sports.
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Not in architecture though or anything related to culture/history.
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The grandstand is architectually significant according to those who know.
The new grandstand would be an unimaginative pile of concrete built to maximise advertising.
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It is architecturally significant for its era (minus signs and condition) but to look at that in isolation of other factors, to state function doesn't matter and to infer that any new development will have as much architectural value as Metricon Stadium is taking a very narrow view on reality.
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What world war 2 history? And saying because people went there to watch sport during WW2 does not pose any special significance.
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