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Originally Posted by turn1
How much will that thing cost an already cash-strapped project? They've already lopped off 3 of 4 pedestrian bridges, the fire/ems station, permanent restrooms except in the main straight structures, and have done little to address roads to and parking at/near the circuit. They go on and on about having the essentials done before the race, but they're gonna build this arguably useless tower?
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It's their money. They must want the tower more than the pedestrian bridges. Most of the renderings I've seen did not include the pedestrian bridges -- only 1 of them that I can recall. The vast majority didn't show any. So they may not have been anything but a wish-list item at some point.
Seems like as many bathrooms as possible would be good, though. Nothing worse than long lines at port-o-potties to make the fans miserable.
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Something else makes me wonder about Miro-Rivera. They seem really cool & all, but I wonder why they were brought in to do the stadium structure when this really isn't their kind of ball game, and HKS was already involved.
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The tower has always looked like a Miro-Rivera design to me. It's very much their style, with lines and curved lines being an integral part of the architecture. In fact, it seems like the renderings I did see with the pedestrian bridges, they also looked like Miro-Rivera designs.
http://www.mirorivera.com/institutional.html
As I thought, Miro-Rivera wasn't just brought in:
http://www.statesman.com/sports/form...k-2099095.html
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The local architectural firm has been working on the racetrack project for more than a year. Last year, it was announced that Miró Rivera was designing a signature piece of the circuit, a 250-foot-high observation tower.
It turns out the firm also designed the main grandstand, even though the other architects employed by the circuit include Tilke GmbH and HKS. The German firm Tilke designed the 3.4-mile circuit in Southeast Travis County and has built striking Formula One tracks and grandstands around the globe.
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