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| Thread ID: 100785 | 2009-06-20 07:14:00 | It is not the ^&$^$# Cake Tin | Zippity (58) | PC World Chat |
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| 783979 | 2009-06-20 11:18:00 | Yeah I have family down there and they refer to it as a cake tin. I like the name cake tin as it gives such a poorly designed stadium a bit of character which it doesnt have by structural design. If we dont call it the cake tin then what should we call it? Muffin pan, tea pot or maybe quiche pan to compliment the artistic flair of our capital city and also to reflect that real men dont eat quiche. Cake tin was sure to rise from a half-baked idea with only a sprinkling of common sense and to put icing on the cake the additional cost to complete resulted the council taking a battering from the locals. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 783980 | 2009-06-20 11:51:00 | I like the name cake tin as it gives such a poorly designed stadium a bit of character which it doesnt have by structural design. If we dont call it the cake tin then what should we call it? Muffin pan, tea pot or maybe quiche pan to compliment the artistic flair of our capital city and also to reflect that real men dont eat quiche. Cake tin was sure to rise from a half-baked idea with only a sprinkling of common sense and to put icing on the cake the additional cost to complete resulted the council taking a battering from the locals. And what qualifications do you have to say that it is poorly designed??? It is actually very well designed for what it is, and it's very small budget. It was always too small, but that isn't anything to do with the design. That is an insult to Wellingtonians, who spend decades lobbying, designing and building it. It is NZs only fully purpose build stadium built from scratch, which was build for $120 million, Alot of which went to lawyers for resource consent hearings. You couldn't build such a stadium today. It was always too small, but at least Wellington got one built. Auckland could never build a stadium like that from scratch. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 783981 | 2009-06-20 12:21:00 | Auckland could never build a stadium like that from scratch. True, we would probably have to use concrete, steel, wood etc. and other old fashioned stuff. If you have lots of scratch, why not use it? Good on Wellington (wherever it may be). |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 783982 | 2009-06-20 13:16:00 | Why do the ignorant Auckland journalists insist on referring to the Westpac Stadium in Wellington as the "Cake Tin"? :( The Soup Bowl! |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 783983 | 2009-06-20 14:19:00 | It was always too small, but that isn't anything to do with the design... design was too small? | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 783984 | 2009-06-20 14:42:00 | Everyone down here calls it the caketin, farkin eh it looks like one. Great name for a stadium, what the **** else are you gonna call it anyway. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 783985 | 2009-06-20 19:09:00 | And what qualifications do you have to say that it is poorly designed??? It is actually very well designed for what it is, and it's very small budget. It was always too small, but that isn't anything to do with the design. That is an insult to Wellingtonians, who spend decades lobbying, designing and building it. It is NZs only fully purpose build stadium built from scratch, which was build for $120 million, Alot of which went to lawyers for resource consent hearings. You couldn't build such a stadium today. It was always too small, but at least Wellington got one built. Auckland could never build a stadium like that from scratch. no qualifications except that of how to rark up wellingtonians over a stadium that looks like a cake tin. Was Edmonds by chance a sponsor? |
sam m (517) | ||
| 783986 | 2009-06-20 19:48:00 | I prefer to call it the "The Ring of Fire". This also was a name given when it was built.:2cents: |
ooh yeh (2935) | ||
| 783987 | 2009-06-20 21:11:00 | Long live the Wellington Cake Tin.. By the way . The reason that there are so many cases of Swine Flu in Wellington is because of all the public servants with their noses in the trough.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 783988 | 2009-06-20 22:27:00 | To quote the Bard: "Much ado about nothing." |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
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