00:00More than two years in the making, brand new official artists' impressions of the proposed
00:07Macquarie Point Stadium, an earthy wooden wonder with a translucent domed roof, the
00:13world's first and largest timber-roofed stadium.
00:17We had comments like, you could put this anywhere in Tasmania, it would feel like it would fit.
00:22This feels like a Tasmanian product and people were really excited.
00:25It will be 54 metres high at its peak, 10 metres more than originally envisioned, but
00:30the trade-off is significantly reduced height around its edges, owing to the curved nature
00:36of the dome, which will be supported by steel and timber.
00:39That gives us a sustainable outcome, it gives a Tasmanian outcome and it helps us give a
00:44world first.
00:45The concept's conjured in eight weeks by Cox Architects and local firm Cumulus, with the
00:51impact on the nearby Cenotaph front of mind.
00:54We looked at a variety, very quickly, of different roof options, but the dome was actually the
00:59most softest in terms of the overall landscape.
01:02The stadium will be able to be expanded in future years for added capacity.
01:07It will be naturally ventilated with a self-cleaning roof.
01:11No issues with shadows affecting Devils or Hurricanes games, according to architects,
01:17who remain supremely confident it can be built on the nine hectare reclaimed site.
01:23We've done a very fine balancing of the final level, in relation to making sure the building
01:27doesn't come up too high, putting it at the right level that addresses the water table
01:31issues, putting it at the right level that combines cut and fill across the site.
01:35As for the heritage listed goods shed, that'll remain on site, but relocated to the northern
01:41side of the stadium.
01:43And I think that keeping that history on the site is really important, so that it still
01:48has a memory of what it used to be.
01:51Public opinion is so far predictably mixed.
01:54It's been labelled everything from perfect, to a pimple, to a disgrace, to uniquely Tasmanian.
02:01There will be people who might have been 50-50 on this that will be really, really impressed
02:06by the designs.
02:07There'll be one overbite.
02:09But the renders have done little to placate the stadium's fiercest opponents.
02:14I don't think dressing up the images of this stadium in timber trusses and native forest
02:20cladding is going to win anybody over in Tasmania.
02:23This is a significant challenge.
02:25Accountants may be nervous about a project deemed the world's largest and world's first,
02:31but proponents and the government remain adamant the designs can be brought to life within
02:37the allotted $715 million budget.
02:41The first consultant we appointed was our quantity surveyor team.
02:43They have been sitting alongside this the whole way.
02:46They report to us, they're separate to the design team, and we're confident we can meet
02:50our budget.
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