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New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett
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I'm impressed they remembered to fix the scoreboard - I assume Grok had originally said "G%V7?"
I thought the same thing haha, but it's legit from the team along with a brand new webpage
https://www.revolutionsoccer.net/everett-stadium
The design will obviously change a bunch, but it's interesting that they are doubling down on the preliminary render which many of us thought was just a mockup. It seems weird to potentially go for such an open concept at the ends in the windiest major city in the US (aside from the diagonal view of downtown). Effectively starting next year, MLS is shifting to a July -> May schedule (1 month break between December and January) meaning more cold weather games. Seems like you'd want to enclose the stadium as much as possible for fan comfort.
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Pretty badass stadium imo.
Theres a video rendering too that shows the stadium and the 4 acre waterfront park.
Theres a video rendering too that shows the stadium and the 4 acre waterfront park.
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Love the location for this.
Love the intentional design for multi-purpose usage (this'll be a great spot for summer concerts, especially with the new MLS season schedule).
Hate the materials (can we please get some brick?).
Please: more this, less this.
Love the waterfront access.
Hate lack of actual waterfront activation.
Wish this took more design guidance from FSG in The Fenway than The Kraft Group in Foxboro.
Love the intentional design for multi-purpose usage (this'll be a great spot for summer concerts, especially with the new MLS season schedule).
Hate the materials (can we please get some brick?).
Please: more this, less this.
Love the waterfront access.
Hate lack of actual waterfront activation.
Wish this took more design guidance from FSG in The Fenway than The Kraft Group in Foxboro.
The video includes 'conceptual' renderings which have been on hard drives for years, probably, so I wouldn't take them too seriously. That said- there's an informal template involved with the recent MLS stadiums, several of which look pretty handsome, e.g. Nashville and Cincinnati.
As for FSG- their largesse on the free agent market this offseason suggests they'd spare no expense if they owned the Revs....
As for FSG- their largesse on the free agent market this offseason suggests they'd spare no expense if they owned the Revs....
Agreed. I know the images that have been shared are place holder designs, but whatever is built here NEEDS to reference the new Everton Stadium (Will Dickinson Stadium) as a starting point and main point of inspiration. The design cues, history and location of that stadium translates really well with this site/surrounding area:
Also, if Nashville can support a 30k cap Stadium, I bet Boston can too...
Like @SteelyTom mentioned, there is a consistent sort of layout/template that you see in recent MLS stadium designs for seating. However the exteriors do tend to be very different. Most of them tend to have a modern/sleek design that is much more oriented to the future. Many of these teams with new stadiums have existed for under 10 years so there isn't much history to reference.
The one exception we see in the league is the recently approved Chicago Fire stadium at 22,000 capacity (planned completion is 2028). Like the Revolution, Chicago Fire were one of the early clubs of MLS back in the 90's, they have a lot of history relative to other teams. The proximity of their stadium to downtown also has a lot to do with the Chicago School influence incorporating the brick ,steel, and glass.
I doubt that the white textureless exterior of the renders will stay, and I hope the Fire's brick stadium sets a good precedent for a direction the designers can take with future iterations. Hill-Dickinson in Liverpool is a really cool example of mixing historic and futuristic design, it's just tough because it's such a different scale.
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I'd love to see a hotel integrated into the stadium's Harborwalk-facing edge(s). Like most uses, Boston region has a dire shortage of hotel rooms, and an event space like this stadium (not to mention the casino across the street) will only increase demand for hotel nights north of the city. TD Garden does a nice job integrating Citizen M with its facility; Manchester's Delta Dental Stadium has a Hilton Garden Inn with a patio and rooms that literally open to the Outfield.
I feel like a 6-8 story wall of several hundred hotel room windows with Juliet balconies facing the river would be such a tasteful way to connect the stadium with the water, and further activate the ground level. And maybe the 4-acre park could operate multidimensionally in the way Sydney, Australia's harborfront operates with Opera House. There's multiple levels of plazas, covered walkways, and even businesses (look up Opera Bar) that offer waterfront views, support the event venue (in this example, the Opera House), and succeed at making the place an unmissable destination.
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Also, most of the new housing developments in that part of Everett are not red brick.
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True, but the buildings on the site are currently red brick (old parts of Mystic Station and the Mystic Pumping Station). That industrial red brick look has a significant history on the site. (Others have proposed trying to save part of the Mystic Station red brick facade).
Not suggesting either approach is better, just that there is an argument for the red brick approach.
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Huh? The literal exact buildings this thing will be replacing are red brick. So, yeah: "Context."
The new Chicago Fire stadium posted above would be a perfect template.
And just for the record, Fenway Park is as far from the Charles River as this will be to the Encore Casino. It's in the same general area as the Casino but it is really not "next to" it.
The replacing buildings were from the first half of the 20th century when the area was a polluting mess of toxic plants.
Now we are in the 21st century and there is a huge white modern casino resort next door. The context is completely different in 2025 for that location.
I love red brick as much as the next person. But Everett is not the Fenway neighborhood. Nor is it Tremont Street. Your point would be far better regarding The new Holocaust Museum of a modern white building going up in a place where a red brick building should be - across from Park Street Station and the church. Locational context matters. This ain’t that location.
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True. But the style and materials are nowhere near contextual with Fenway/Back Bay style red brick. And its platform is Seinfeld’s parents’ Del Boca Vista Phase II.
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Yeah but you don't really see that part unless you're right up next to it. Otherwise only the tower stands out, and due to its location obviously stands out a lot.
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My opinion, we should avoid taking any context from the Encore, which is just the Wynn corporate identity - swoopy brown with tan stripes - airdropped into Everett. Las Vegas, Macau, the UAE... its not meaningfully dissimilar in concept to the corporate look for something like a suburban Marriott Courtyard or a newly renovated McDonalds or Dunks, which no one in the right mind should use for architectural context.
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