Colour Saturation

Applying bold colour to our buildings is a fashion at the moment, and boy, it can go all wrong! This is a great example of how the architects have managed to strip away all the surface mess and treat concrete as an amazing palette - note the recessed light fittings!!

Concrete & timber with black highlights are expanded on by the use of greens & blues 

Is it a stadium? Is it city football HQ? Is it accommodation?

A question that continually circles my mind is:
- how can we craft architecture that inspires our athletes, administrators, coaches and the public, all in the same project? 

One approach is to engage, understand & empathise with each of them & allow simple mechanisms or opportunities for them to be integrated at the human level & scale...

Croatian architects' NFO response in Dubrovnik was to offer residential-commercial content in the "contact zone" of the stadium, shaped by the surrounding city

A brilliant response for a low-level city / community football ground... offices to the street frontage/ accommodation with green-space to the field/ easy access & availability to training/ access for the public & community at street level & low-tiered bleachers

A great opportunity for a public-private partnership, with community engagement, I think