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Any glazing tricks or techniques you’ve used?
Lessons learned along the way?
Lessons learnt from this project in terms of glass is to get
your engineering models done early because they really
do inform what happens with the rest of the building.
Understanding what products are available, what visibility
you’re trying to achieve. And in this particular situation
one of our key drivers was trying to ensure the glass for
the inner bowl is as clear as possible. We don’t want to
have any sort of obstruction from the actual inside space.
We literally want to make you feel when you’re standing
inside the social club, or standing inside the Members’
bar, that it’s seamless. You’re just viewing straight out
onto the pitch.
Were there many complexities, or specific challenges?
We’ve talked about some of the advantages of the glass
but obviously it’s not just about clarity, you still need
glass to be insulating acoustically and thermally in many
instances. Why not just use plasterboard?
You can build essentially whatever you want but it will
cost exponentially. We needed to work within the
limitations of the product in this case, the way we
structured the mullions and worked with the floor plates.
We worked on that quite early on in the process to be
able to get as much free-span glass as possible to meet
the project’s budget.
“[It’s] not your normal
stadium. We’ve got
function rooms, cafés
and retail merchandise
that come together to
form a really cohesive,
interesting, experience.”
BRAYDEN GOODWIN, ARCHITECT