I’m all for some good old fashioned zany architecture! Call me a nerd, but I always love when stuff like this falls onto my Twitter timeline. It’s an immediate distraction that sends me off on a tangent that has me forgetting what I was even doing on Twitter in the first place. Today, I’m going to share this design for a stadium that was going to be built on top of a river in Pittsburgh for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Steelers to play in. Folks, was this ballsy or what?
Courtesy of a website that is giving me a “not secure” message (heads up):
If this ain’t some Jetsons shit, I don’t know what is. In fact, we should’ve put the Jetsons in check when we had the chance because there’s no telling how much dumb shit that cartoon inspired for people who thought that that was the way of the future. I mean, we don’t have to go down this rabbit hole, but I know that a lot of modern technology was based in ideas set forth by popular science fiction, but that’s another thousand words that don’t pertain to the topic at hand so I’ll just leave it at that. Also, just to be completely transparent, I wasn’t able to find a legitimate source that this was even a legitimate plan, so take this all with a grain of salt. I just thought it was an interesting enough concept to invest a few hundred words into.
How would this even be possible? I’m no engineer, so if any engineers happen to be reading SoBros Network, I would greatly appreciate one of you explaining the rationale of how you could build a massive stadium complex with a parking garage AND a hotel on what looks like essentially a platform on top of a river. Would it be cool as hell? Sure. I’ll grant you that. It’s pretty cool to take a look back some 60 years at what the forefront of architectural. But, this just seems impractical and dangerous. How many drunk people would stumble off the property and go over the rail into the river? Did anyone ever bring that up? Where would all the waste from this site go? It just seems like a logistical nightmare. I start asking these questions, and ultimately, I end up at “why am I thinking about this so much? There’s just no way this is feasible.”
Damn it. Wait. The Jetsons didn’t air until 1962. I’ve ruined the entire Jetsons joke because of my lack of research. FML.
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