Yeah, it’s a blast from the 1970s… Back when monstrosities such as the Kingdome was still in fashion.
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Time to redo SYS too. Far too much concrete…
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According to this article and Taipei City Councillors Lin Liang-jun (林亮君), Chien Shu-pei (簡舒培), and Miao Po-ya (苗博雅), there are plenty of violations still not fixed and regulations unmet, when the city government granted FarGlory with a design alteration permit.
Currently the Taipei Dome still hasn’t met article 97 and 127 of Building Technical Regulations. Deviations in emergency escape routes and seating designs are still unresolved.
Back in 2018, the Taipei city government specified that these regulations must be met before issuing a permit.
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How is that different from any other dome?
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Read the thread!
Roughly from memory:
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The original design was severely modified to be much larger and closer to the main streets (Zhongxiao East Road, and Guangfu South Road)—effectively making emergency evacuation impossible;
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It hulks over a national symbol and monument—Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, pictured in the foreground—something that the original architect from Japan carefully avoided;
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The jackass developers cut down a bunch of old trees along Guangfu South Road, removing much-needed shade and angering arboreal activists;
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They still have not addressed safety violations brought about by their unlawful modification of the design.
You’re welcome.
Guy
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They cut the capacity from 90000 (same as Wembley) to 60000.
I guess that means 60,000 can get out safely and I don’t know.
90000 would make it one of or the largest covered arenas in the world. WTF.
Those numbers just don’t make sense. Doesn’t seem that big and it’s covered.
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I was wondering about that, they had the remaining trees cordoned off and locked up with official notices plastered all over the walls
arborial activists
lol
Why would people not be able to flood out safely into the wide major arteries and other spaces around the stadium?
At some point…would it just be easier and more cost efficient to just blow it up and build it from scratch?
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Spelling corrected—thanks! : D
Guy
Very limited space outside it, difficult to 'flood out ’ to anywhere.
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You would be flooding out into traffic. The only space is on the road.
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and in case of an emergency, you need the roads to stay clear for the emergency vehicles
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90000 and 60000 aren’t stadium capacity, they are the total amount of people allowed on the lot. The stadium was design to only hold 40071. The rest were intended for the mall and business center next to the stadium.
However, Farglory kept simulating emergencies situations by putting 50K people in the stadium, to avoid exposing the fact that escape routes are equally poorly planned for their business buildings.
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I, for one, welcome our new Taipei Dome overlord.
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It must be glary in those commercial office buildings next door on the lower floors. I hope the windows are properly UV protective tinted.
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Most domes, or large indoor arenas especially for baseball, built after the 90s don’t look like this.
The Farglory redesign essentially is a rip off of the Sapporo dome, which was built at the tail of the 1990s, and probably the last indoor baseball stadium to look like this.
Most indoor baseball stadiums built after the 90s, including new stadiums being built in the US and Japan have retractable roofs and are usually designed to make the retractable roof easier to operate and repair.
Chase Stadium
Marlins Park
Miller Park
Minute Maid Park
Roger Centre
T-Mobile Park
Rangers’ new Globe Life Park, still under construction
Nippon Ham Fighters are already trying to do away with their Sapporo Dome that Farglory ripped off. Their new stadium is also going to be one with a retractable roof
Nippon Ham Fighters’ new stadium still under construction
Japan’s famous Big Eye soccer stadium also has a retractable roof, even though it maintained a more traditional dome shape.
Oita Big Eye
Taipei dome’s design doesn’t blend in its surroundings, nor is it a new or appropriate design, and is way too expensive for such an outdated design, and that’s before all the delays and unauthorized changes.
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In regard of the design and safety aspects, the whole project was in fact inspired by Public Enemy’s “Welcome to the Terrordome”, off their Fear of a Black Planet album. I believe people are missing this pop cultural reference.
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Ha, didn’t even notice. I love trees as much as the next guy and probably more, but I just found it funny.
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Yeah, I can see how that could be a problem.
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There’s a few good articles online about it I think. Anyway they struggle to evacuate the stadium quickly in the models. Any modern stadium worldwide is surrounded by a plaza, I believe this is to help with crowd flow and rapid evacuation. They built some tunnels or considered to build tunnels to the park opposite there but cannot handle the volume of crowds. They would have to spill out onto the roads. The area where the hotels and malls were built is supposed to be reserved as open space.
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