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Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« Reply #3575 on: August 03, 2012, 08:46:04 AM »
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do you think the concourse will extend all the way to bramlage or will there still be an avenue/walkway for people to walk from one parking lot to the other on the south side without entering the stadium?

Discussion still taking place about if/how to allow fans to cross through to other lot. Like Dax said some sort of elevated walkway is probably the best bet, but it will need to be figured out at some point.

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Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« Reply #3576 on: August 03, 2012, 08:57:28 AM »
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do you think the concourse will extend all the way to bramlage or will there still be an avenue/walkway for people to walk from one parking lot to the other on the south side without entering the stadium?

Discussion still taking place about if/how to allow fans to cross through to other lot. Like Dax said some sort of elevated walkway is probably the best bet, but it will need to be figured out at some point.

it's no zipline, but I'll take it!   :drool:
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« Reply #3577 on: August 03, 2012, 09:19:17 AM »
CATapults  :crossfingers:

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Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« Reply #3578 on: August 03, 2012, 09:32:27 AM »
Glad to see there is some proper demolition going on instead of hoping for a tornado like the Hawks.

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« Reply #3579 on: August 03, 2012, 09:35:35 AM »
heading over soon, has it happened yet?

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Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« Reply #3580 on: August 03, 2012, 09:40:03 AM »
Guise!  What if we have an enclosed (and air conditioned of course!) escalator with....wait for it....a TON of TV's on the wall?  Maybe when you get off at the top there's a nice Cats representative handing you a bottle of water?  Maybe the steps are anodize purple? 


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Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« Reply #3581 on: August 03, 2012, 09:42:14 AM »
we should get some of those sweet curved escalators like in the forum shops at caesars in vegas
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Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« Reply #3582 on: August 03, 2012, 09:44:51 AM »
we should get some of those sweet curved escalators like in the forum shops at caesars in vegas

We'll probably just get elevated walkways with drifters like Vegas.

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« Reply #3583 on: August 03, 2012, 09:56:54 AM »
It would seem a new walkway (going East to West/West to East) already has one part done with the new ramp on the East side of Bramlage.   They could duplicate the same thing on the West Side, the problem then becomes what to do in the middle where the Legends room is located.   If they were able to open up the entire South concourse of the stadium to Bramlage that would open up a lot of space and ease congestion.   

IMO they should just plan on expanding on the West Side of Bramlage and put a new Legends Room in over there, and then remove the old one and use that for the walk way.   They need to leave enough room to allow for additional seating of the stadium though.   If they get too crazy they're going to leave themselves little room to expand seating in the football stadium.

The real pickle is going to be the North End . . . Frankly the move to redo the entire thing needs to be done sooner rather than later.   Possibly LHC LHC Bill Snyder the sole reason that the North End/Vanier is the way it is today can write a letter to all those that donated to all the previous rambling and disjointed expansions of Vanier.   In that letter he can apologize for his stubbornness, short shortsightedness and inflexibility.  He then could go on to explain that out of the rambling pile of the Vanier Complex a fantastic new facility will rise like a Phoenix.   A facility incorporated with a fully meshed cohesive completion of lower seating bowl, with a middle segment "cut out" of the upper half of the middle sections of the bowl.  Exposing a fantastic view of the entire football stadium from the coaches offices, with a recruiting center and balcony over looking the stadium on the next level . . .  and state of the art dressing room/weightroom/meeting rooms/medicine underneath below the seating bowl with a tunnel.   The visiting dressing room then gets moved and cut out of the hill on the Northeast side and they exit and enter through the tunnel used by vehicles to get into the stadium.   

Then up top of the new North Seating Bowl they build "Gameday Portico or Overlook . . . a fantastic limestone walled structure with a perfect View into the Stadium allowing the ESPN Gameday to have a "permanent" home at K-State whenever they visit (which will be often), with the West Stadium Center in perfect view on some panelist shots, and then the gathered masses with signs seen in other shots.   Herbie could wave to the crowd like the Pope . . .  they then could take in the EMAW victories right from there while being served EMAW's finest meats and cheeses. 






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Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« Reply #3584 on: August 03, 2012, 10:03:10 AM »
My awesome vision was somewhat copied by Indiana when they did their Stadium Renovation. 

I post this picture for those who lack creativity and imagination.


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Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« Reply #3585 on: August 03, 2012, 10:09:54 AM »
Indiana only has one crane.   :lol:

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« Reply #3586 on: August 03, 2012, 10:10:33 AM »
Indiana only has one crane.   :lol:

It looks pretty small too.

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« Reply #3587 on: August 03, 2012, 10:11:10 AM »
Indiana only has one crane.   :lol:

Where's the Hoosiers/Southwell gif when you need it?

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« Reply #3588 on: August 03, 2012, 10:11:26 AM »
Indiana only has one crane.   :lol:

Yep, to do what should be done will require like 2 more of what we're putting up now . . . I mean, other schools won't have a prayer in Crane Wars, we'll dominate.


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« Reply #3589 on: August 03, 2012, 10:16:19 AM »
is that assembly hall back there?


Cheesy Mustache QB might make an appearance.

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« Reply #3590 on: August 03, 2012, 10:16:37 AM »
Ooooh...we could draw and quarter mascot effigies with our cranes for pre-games this season!

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« Reply #3591 on: August 03, 2012, 10:16:53 AM »
Here is the outside . . . my awesome vision which is exactly what K-State should do would incorporate a facade similar to the WSC.

Note their small crane again.

I post this for conceptual purposes only for those that lack imagination and creativity (typically Construction Science graduates . . . I kid, I kid).



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« Reply #3592 on: August 03, 2012, 10:18:53 AM »
Indiana only has one crane.   :lol:

Yep, to do what should be done will require like 2 more of what we're putting up now . . . I mean, other schools won't have a prayer in Crane Wars, we'll dominate.

The huge, car dealership sized powercat flag from the crane boon will look sweet on game days. (CC make this happen)
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« Reply #3593 on: August 03, 2012, 10:21:11 AM »


OMG... Did they intend that to look like the Notre Dame in Paris?  Where's Quasimodo's room?

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« Reply #3594 on: August 03, 2012, 10:33:22 AM »
was Frasier finished up yesterday?  looks like the smaller crane is now down by Niles
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« Reply #3595 on: August 03, 2012, 10:44:51 AM »
Elevated covered walkway <<<<<< Underground heated lazy river.




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« Reply #3596 on: August 03, 2012, 10:49:16 AM »
Elevated covered MOVING walkway <<<<<< Underground heated lazy river.

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« Reply #3597 on: August 03, 2012, 11:27:51 AM »
Elevated covered walkway <<<<<< Underground heated lazy river.

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« Reply #3598 on: August 03, 2012, 11:56:33 AM »
starting to feel big time around here

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« Reply #3599 on: August 03, 2012, 11:57:11 AM »
The real pickle is going to be the North End . . . Frankly the move to redo the entire thing needs to be done sooner rather than later.   Possibly LHC LHC LHC Bill Snyder the sole reason that the North End/Vanier is the way it is today can write a letter to all those that donated to all the previous rambling and disjointed expansions of Vanier.   In that letter he can apologize for his stubbornness, short shortsightedness and inflexibility.  He then could go on to explain that out of the rambling pile of the Vanier Complex a fantastic new facility will rise like a Phoenix.   A facility incorporated with a fully meshed cohesive completion of lower seating bowl, with a middle segment "cut out" of the upper half of the middle sections of the bowl.  Exposing a fantastic view of the entire football stadium from the coaches offices, with a recruiting center and balcony over looking the stadium on the next level . . .  and state of the art dressing room/weightroom/meeting rooms/medicine underneath below the seating bowl with a tunnel.   The visiting dressing room then gets moved and cut out of the hill on the Northeast side and they exit and enter through the tunnel used by vehicles to get into the stadium.   

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Love the idea; here is more on the IU expansion http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2009/8/4/977686/a-close-up-look-at-ius-expanded

Dax, I think the weight room is in Phase 3, though, and it's going to be affixed to Vanier in the Northwest corner of the stadium around the Varsity Club (but I could be wrong).

CC, confirm?