Anyone figure out what they big metal curved piece in the field of for?

After looking at the 2015 seating chart from Good Bull Hunting, I don't think the "infamous" NW corner will look bad at all after completion. Considering that The Zone and the new West Side have completely different architectural designs, I say the connection between the two will look pretty darn good when it's all finished:

http://www.goodbullhunting.com/rcb05/2015/3/14/8213147/interactive-3d-tour-of-2015-kyle-field

The NW corner will not look bad...it will look weird!

I hope there's at least a wall behind that little triangle...

Is this still the plan for the NW corner?

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Anyone figure out what they big metal curved piece in the field of for?

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I figure it's a pre assembled section of canopy

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Leo?

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Leo Goertz, athletic field maintenance manager

http://www.12thman.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27300&ATCLID=205702263

imo new kyle kicks ass!

They have laid out the wood planking for the crane in the northeast corner. Any chance this metal structure is something else going in on that side of the stadium?

Finally installing the loge seating that will replace the bad sight line seats adjacent to the student section is my bet.

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Leo?

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Leo Goertz, athletic field maintenance manager

http://www.12thman.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27300&ATCLID=205702263

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Camp Goertz holla back!

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Is this still the plan for the NW corner?

http://i.imgur.com/Tlgb8OK.png

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Judging from the construction cams, I'd say yes (periodically it is slightly zoomed out so you can see the whole NW corner). The awkward transition of the first deck looks to be complete, and they've put in most of that funny triangular section hanging of the west second deck.

They've just got to lay the concrete sections for the third deck in the NW corner. And I guess there are some open seats for luxury boxes between the second and third decks in the NW corner?

Big yellow crain down for disassembly

Great to see these pics, can't wait to see the stadium in its full glory in game action.

Nm

If I ever win the lottery, I think I'm going to get me a big yellow crane like that. Not exactly sure what I'd do with it, but I'm sure I would think of something.

Big yellow crane is down this morning.

We didn't spend 400 mil on old Kyle

They can throw up concrete risers for a whole deck in one night, but going on three days and they're still working on taking down and moving out the crane.

So how many Aggies does it take to disassemble a big yellow crane?

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So how many Aggies does it take to disassemble a big yellow crane?

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Why don't you volunteer to help them out?

I thought everyone here said crane was going to be lifted out by an even bigger crane.

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I thought everyone here said crane was going to be lifted out by an even bigger crane.

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Kinda like this?..........

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They can throw up concrete risers for a whole deck in one night, but going on three days and they're still working on taking down and moving out the crane.

So how many Aggies does it take to disassemble a big yellow crane?

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My guess would be that the crane is likely rented, and the owner of the crane is responsible for disassembling the crane and moving it out, not Manhattan-Vaughn. The owner has likely been given date that it has to be out by to avoid any schedule impacts. Just my guess...

I realize there are probably design aspects I can't account for, but it certainly seems that something like this:



Would have been better than this:

While that transition does look better, it doesn't make 3 dimensional sense. You have created the Penrose Triangle effect. Going from left to right you make an angle in and shorten the north side club. The problem is that if you angle in at that point, the North Zone club would have to be around 30 feet closer to the field than it is. It might work if they could have continued the west club seating further north and into that structure under the loge boxes and angled in to meet up with the zone club seats. But I assume that there is strict limitation due to that structure that they have built the seats around. Perhaps it is the interior portion of the activation tower?

Adding more seats further in to fill the gap would be facing east looking at the other deck. Maybe another row of loge-boxes would face the south better.

My guess is extending the triangle of the second deck as you have drawn may partially block the view of the people of in the first deck in the very back. They would probably be able to see the field, but may miss kicks and high-thrown passes.

Note the edge of the triangle in the second deck lines up directly with the odd-shaped section in the first deck.

edit - Here is the view from the back of section 114. If the second deck triangle extended out any further to the left, it would definitely destroy the open-air feeling of the stadium and potentially block the view of the jumbotron.

Is it just the angle of the camera, but why does the new tv on nw side look to be closer to the edge than the other one, and turn jut a little more.... I thought they were supposed to be symmetrical

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Is it just the angle of the camera, but why does the new tv on nw side look to be closer to the edge than the other one, and turn jut a little more.... I thought they were supposed to be symmetrical

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Symmetrical? You answered your own question - nothing is symmetrical at new Kyle.

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I thought they were supposed to be symmetrical

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Oh no...here we go again. More symmetry questions

Big yellow crane is gone so that's one less thing for people to pick at...

Was driving on Wellborn past the stadium at 1:00 pm today, and a truck full of small trees entered the work area. All I can think is that the trees might be planted outside the north zone because the west side is still in working mode - dirt and trucks.

What's the lower level feature necessitating west side first deck vomitories that the larger east side first deck doesn't require?