New Aloha Stadium Seating Bowl
New Aloha Stadium - Overhead with Roof This is my drawing for a New Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The current Aloha Stadium is corroding and rusting badly, and I think this design would be more appropriate for college football than their current convertable football/baseball stadium that can't convert any more. It would also be a much better college bowl facility, and may intice the Pro Bowl back to Hawaii. There has been talk of a new stadium in Honolulu to replace the current one, but reports are throwing around numbers like $500 million. I don't know what they have in mind, but that is too much for a college football stadium. Minnesota had theirs built for about $280 million, and this seat bowl design would be similar.
Total capacity would be 52,500, with 25,000 seats in the lower bowl, 26,500 in the upper bowl, and the rest in 20 suites and the press box. I don't think this stadium needs to be overloaded with suites; it hosts WAC football, an annual bowl game and some concerts. The grandstand seating would be designed in a split bowl like in Minnesota, with stairwells leading from the concourse directly to the front of the upper bowl sections. The entire lower bowl and the sideline seats in the upper bowl would be full chairback individual seats, while the rest of the upper bowl would be bench seating. I designed a roof with green supports in the corners to provide some cover, because it rains quite a bit in Hawaii.
This was a stadium I just did this evening, it actually only took a couple hours and turned out really well. I hope you like it.
