For anyone interested, latest aerial of Meadowlands Xanadu

that Xanadu this is such an eyesore.

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Can't wait for the new Stadium!

that thing is ugly

That beautiful banner makes my bus ride bearable every day.

its like the designers/architects were watching Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas while coming up with the color scheme.

and that place looks like a coal mine

It's ugly..

I think the view of the bubble is just obstructed.

have built a race track there to draw all the Nascar fans to NJ.

They thought the color scheme would catch people's attention and make them unable to resist turning into the complex to check it out. I nearly puked in that meeting...

EVER!

nice stuff

or does it look like there are a bunch of people in the front giants parking lot?

Those are cars....note the scale of the cars on the Turnpike.

What a mess.

does Xanadu have its own dedicated parking lot?

the ski slope is much bigger than I thought. It's humongous!

of a team that just finished work on Xanadu. The workmen had to go for constant blood tests. My father had high levels of arsenic in his bloodstream.

you wanted to know and more...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowlands_Xanadu - ( New Window )

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...reminds me of this place...



Pedro sez, 129 miles to Southe of the Border.

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Pedro is a pushy MF~

Some of those attractions were shit canned and replaced with others.

Parking, btw, is going to be a nightmare.

Bergen Community College is also putting a satelitte campus right in between Xanadu and our stadium.

I ripped it to pieces in a project I did for a Land Use and Transportation class a couple years ago. Just an awful idea, and ugly to boot.

"Pedro" even has a sign a mile down the road ("You missed it -- go back!")

Have you ever been in that place? It's like a little city. Rarely does something that tacky generate enough money to build something on that scale.

Xanadu sounds fun. Indoor ski slope? Fishing ponds? I'll definitely check it out.

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at Xanadu?

that would be cool

get me a gross of M-80's

someone ate a ton of cotton candy while drinking and puked their guts out

Such an ugly looking thing. How they decided to construct it that way with those colors is just beyond me.

on the west side of the stadium to make more parking lots. Couldn't they have done that instead of the off sight parking lots.

more parking

of widening RT 3?

Major environmental permitting issues; that's why.

and possibly a fence between the Giants stuff and the Xanadu crap.

to fill in where the sports complex is, so why not a little more in the back there to make parking easier. It is not like it is a rain forrest, its a polluted swamp and there is plenty of remaining swamp in between the stadium and Newark.

sensitive areas. All the mitigation that can be done has been done.

that Xanadu crap reminds me of vomit..
It also makes me wanna vomit. Blah

can we assume the area was not protected in the 70's when the complex was built?

In the 70s, environmental regulations hardly existed period. Now the NJDEP is all over everything and the Meadowlands Commission is directly repsonsible for the whole stadium area.

Shit, our firm had to have snake tunnels designed for the Parkway widening project so the Pine Snakes could still cross the highway. You don't even want to know what that cost taxpayers between the T&E Studies and the Tunnel Design.

On the link below you can read the environmental/permitting issues associated with the new stadium, and that is being built on already used Meadowlands property.


DEP Link to the Stadium Project - ( New Window )

of the one word movie review Gene Shalitt gave the movie of the same name. "Xanadu?" Xanadon't!"

is seeing the new stadium being built.

the giant Pepsi-logo ferris wheel in the foreground.

That is so New Jersey!

has anyone *ever* gone past when it's fully operational? Every time I drive past it looks like a ghost town with maybe 3 or 4 things open. The next time I see that roller coaster moving will be the first, and I've been by pretty much every day of the week, every time of the year.

To keep this on topic so no one bitches about it, the stadium is coming along pretty well.

who the hell designed that ugliness?

Call me old fashioned, but to me, certain types of architecture are timeless. Others look like Shea Stadium. Soldier stadium will look impressive 40 years from now, the new Meadowlands stadium already looks like a big shiny tin can.

with either one or even two open (or partially open) ends. The view of the NYC skyline would have been great...though I am not sure if that pile of shit Xanadu is in the way.





Now I know that NYC isn't nearly as close to the stadium as these are to their respective cities, but the point is that the overall ambiance is vastly improved by simply incorporating the surrounding environment.

on the NJ Turnpike every day. It is the ugliest structure I have ever seen in my freakin life...

...for adding to the justification of my move out of that neck of the woods 15 years ago.

Love to visit, but I'll be damned if I ever live in that $hithole state again.

"As the current construction on the exterior facade was built, there were several complaints from both officials and residents about its garish exterior, which contains blue-and-white and orange-and-red panels. It has been compared to insulation and even the shipping crates on the docks along the Hudson River. Controversy has also developed over the Pepsi Globe's appearance and that it will obstruct nearby residents views of New York City.[5]"