White elephants

[katana]

the whole world is a white elephant. it's all more effort than it's worth.

 

[Scotland]

 

[Plugger35]

Perth is full of white elephants.

Perry Lakes Stadium was one of the biggest white elephants until they tore it down and turned it into a housing estate.

 

[Scotland]

Perry Lakes basically sat there from 1962 to 2012 with minimal use and less maintenance.

 

[Plugger35]

We used to have our school athletics carnivals there and they used to hold athletics events on some weekends there but it wasn't used as much as it should have been.

 

[Scotland]

I've been to school athletics carnivals at Coker Park in Cannington.

For a 30,000 seat Commonwealth Games venue you'd hope to see it get a bit more use.

 

[The Passenger]

A few captions or names of buildings wouldn't go astray in this thread

 

[DardySingh360]

 

[JuddsABlue]

 

[Silent Alarm]

Perth is full of white elephants.

Perry Lakes Stadium was one of the biggest white elephants until they tore it down and turned it into a housing estate.

I reckon Melbourne's worse, when you think about how big and how half of its essentially as old as Etihad, Optus Oval just sits there.

But I'm a pretty big stadium nerd and always love checking out the local footy oval when I'm in a town. Knocked off all the old VFL grounds bar Waverley and always find it impossible to imagine these (mostly) dilapidated places hosting elite footy for 25,000.

I always thought Plough Lane in England was pretty sad. For those playing at home, Wimbledon were a Premier League club at the start of the 2000s and then taken over and moved to Milton Keynes to become the black and white MK Dons, not the blue and gold Wimbledon. Milton Keynes is a shithole. Their ground just got overgrown and forgotten, and there's a whole heap of grounds like this in the UK.

Scotland's national stadium had a former location, it's been in disrepair since '67

 

[DardySingh360]

There's something haunting about abandoned stadiums

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Pretty sure Plough Lane was bulldozed and redeveloped about 10 years ago

 

[Borry]

Wut?

 

[The Passenger]

in the context of the thread, stadium australia gets pretty good usage.

in general, Sydney has managed it's olympic venues not too badly. like any city there will be some venues that are pushed aside, but ours were done reasonably well.

 

[Messenger]

Pretty sure Plough Lane was bulldozed and redeveloped about 10 years ago

It's a housing estate.

 

[Messenger]

A number of years ago travelling through Spain I came across the derelict site of World Expo 92 in Seville

The whole place is a ruin. I went to Expo 88 as a kid but haven't been back to Brisbane in over twenty years. Have we done a better job?

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Does the Vic desal plant count, or is it being used now?

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

A number of years ago travelling through Spain I came across the derelict site of World Expo 92 in Seville

The whole place is a ruin. I went to Expo 88 as a kid but haven't been back to Brisbane in over twenty years. Have we done a better job?

 

[moistie]

That hotel is awesome. I love driving past it at night and there's one window with a red light.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Would have been OK if they didn't put it down facing the wrong way.

 

[Brad Goodman]

That hotel is awesome. I love driving past it at night and there's one window with a red light.

I've never seen a single car parked there. Not sure how it stays in business to be honest.

 

[JeffDunne]

I went to Expo 88 as a kid but haven't been back to Brisbane in over twenty years. Have we done a better job?

For the most part yes.

The Skyneedle is the white elephant from the Brisbane Expo.

Now : https://www.google.com.au/maps/plac...0x6b915a09e2dad4a7:0x8ccccb55d37b781d!6m1!1e1

(Street view is the best I could find)

 

[Nostradumbass]

This place was known as the White Elephant when I was a kid, it's on Williamstown beach. It's now a restaurant. Having been in there when I was younger, knowing the state it was in and the amount of shit there was in the place when it was abandoned I could never eat here.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Does the Vic desal plant count, or is it being used now?

Jeezus what an incredible waste if money that thing was.

Ruined the landscape of a lovely piece of coastline too.

 

[WCErevival]

Not sure why that's considered a white elephant. Its used all the time.