I’m no engineer or architect, but wouldn’t that roof design create massive shadows?
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i think the curved glass would diffuse the light enough that it wouldn’t matter
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All the better to deflect the top ten kids of twenty in the year they debut and GC style draft favours for a decade.
Edit: imagine if they get a decent coach….
Is it a retractable roof??
As shown in the “artist’s impression”, yes. There’s a reason that Docklands always has its roof closed.
Luckily Hobart only averages 5 “sunshine hours” a day (and obviously much less during winter).
How does it affect the TV viewing?
if it has criss/cross shadows over a cricket pitch it will be unplayable
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Did they also say the transparent roof also removes the need for big light towers? Do they plan on not having any night games… surely I heard that wrong
there is lights on the beams holding the roof
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I reckon that (lack of towers, not the bizarre transparent roof bit) was just a line to un-scare some protesters.
It’s an indoor stadium and its lights would be indoors, like Docklands.
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Fair to say it’s going to be a problem.
Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin
US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis
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The entire stadium will be in the shade by 3pm in winter anyway with the mountain to the west and already shorter daylight hours. It’s pitch black by ~5-5:30pm.
I also chuckle heartily at the amount of timber they’ve incorporated in the design… Gotta find uses for all that old growth forest they smash down… 
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If the roof functions as a mechanism to prevent half a stadium going blind from direct sunlight, I’ll call it a win.
Fk me it was hard to see at times at the MCG yesterday due to how bright it was.
Footy would be the one sport most affected by shadowing. Imagine flickerings of light/shade constantly as your running towards a high ball to mark it.
It’s new name is “The Blister”
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The sun won’t go behind the mountain in the winter, but it might be low enough in the sky to be blocked by the stadium by 3:30 (source: I just walked outside and checked)
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Don’t be jealous…
Bit more info on the stadium
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Every stadium roof should be transparent like Wimbledons.
If the MCG gets a roof one day, gotta be transparent.
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Interesting that the Launceston stadium after the upgrades will hold more.
and I highly doubt the Hobart stadium can be upgraded to hold more.