First post here, great board folks!
Many posts I see about the frieze going up in the new stadium are ooohs and ahhs, but if you look at the old vs the new you'll see it's somewhat different. The new frieze looks like a cheap stamped steel relative to the current and past versions.
First off, the holes above the columns are square now, and there's absolutely no detail on the columns whatsoever. The little knobs at the bottoms of the inner posts are gone. Furthermore, the 1923 stadium had 2 types of sections, one for the curved areas of the stadium and one for the straight runs down the foul lines. The frieze going up in the new park uses the same straight-type section all around.
I'm aware that the designers are calling this "an interpretive version" but why? The frieze is one major aspect that defined Yankee Stadium and is also part of Yankee corporate culture. You'da thought that the frieze would be the one thing they would have replicated exactly.
Also the light banks are way too close to the frieze. They're using 2 rows of lights instead of the current 3 which probably means the lamps will be brighter. At night you won't be able to see the frieze well because of the glare. It seems like they should've either run the banks up on towers like Camden Yards or grouped them into sections like the 1946 lights.
Many posts I see about the frieze going up in the new stadium are ooohs and ahhs, but if you look at the old vs the new you'll see it's somewhat different. The new frieze looks like a cheap stamped steel relative to the current and past versions.
First off, the holes above the columns are square now, and there's absolutely no detail on the columns whatsoever. The little knobs at the bottoms of the inner posts are gone. Furthermore, the 1923 stadium had 2 types of sections, one for the curved areas of the stadium and one for the straight runs down the foul lines. The frieze going up in the new park uses the same straight-type section all around.
I'm aware that the designers are calling this "an interpretive version" but why? The frieze is one major aspect that defined Yankee Stadium and is also part of Yankee corporate culture. You'da thought that the frieze would be the one thing they would have replicated exactly.
Also the light banks are way too close to the frieze. They're using 2 rows of lights instead of the current 3 which probably means the lamps will be brighter. At night you won't be able to see the frieze well because of the glare. It seems like they should've either run the banks up on towers like Camden Yards or grouped them into sections like the 1946 lights.
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