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re: Why did it take TAF so long to get the architecture right?
Posted on 7/31/12 at 11:29 am to junkfunky
Posted on 7/31/12 at 11:29 am to junkfunky
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What the frick does Kramer know? He's no Art Vandalay.
Turns out the Honorable Arthur Vandalay isn't even an architect. He's a judge. He is also rumored to be an importer/exporter.
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Posted on 7/31/12 at 11:44 am to TheHiddenFlask
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The SEZ expansion is going to look incredible from the outside, but the west uppers are such an architectural abortion that the great looking new addition is just going to accentuate the shittiness of it.
Exactly, I lol every time the board archect said that you could do not this or that because it would go out to the street or other reasons.Give me the money and I'll cut the roof off the dome and make it retractable and add more suits while doing it.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 11:53 am to kingbob
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So the windows started falling off and plummeting 200 ft down and landing where people walk into the stadium. After they "fixed" the problem, they left the bars up just in case. Also, the project ended up waay over budget and over time.
Did this really happen? Holy shite, that could of been a freaking disaster. How could he be so neglegent?
Posted on 7/31/12 at 12:56 pm to lsufball19
I was at Neyland last week and the inside was nice and upgraded in the last 10 years but the outside, where I came in (one of the endzones) still looked old and ragged. Windows just like our old dorm rooms still there. Not impressed.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 1:08 pm to TheHiddenFlask
Posted on 7/31/12 at 1:19 pm to kingbob
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Tray Trahan is a POS who has to do the worst archetectural work I've ever scene. Everything is form over function. You site the softball stadium as great work where it faces East yet has a grand stand that acts more like a giant sail than an overhang. It doesn't protect people from rain or sun so why does it exist?
Many of his designs are absolutely fraught with design flaws that don't work. Sinks that don't drain, doors that slide off of their hinges, roof concepts that leak, concrete that corrodes in moist environments, breezeways that cause water to flow under them and rain on the people walking underneath. It is purely form over function with a complete lack of practicality in design that is nearly impossible in execution.
The reason he wasn't picked for the SEZ expansion is because of how many disasters occurred during the west side expansion. Do you know why there are bars over the glass? It's because the glue he ordered be used to secure the windows without using any other mechanical bonding method loses it's strength when heated. So the windows started falling off and plummeting 200 ft down and landing where people walk into the stadium. After they "fixed" the problem, they left the bars up just in case. Also, the project ended up waay over budget and over time.
Spot on. I take it you worked on the west side project too, right?
Posted on 7/31/12 at 1:24 pm to Tony The Tiger
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Still don't know what they saw in Trahan. It was a disaster.
Politics.
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