The latest image of the proposed Macquarie Point stadium has been released, showing how it will look from the Hobart waterfront.
The offical Cox Architecture render is ‘less intrusive’ than one released by anti-stadium group ‘Our Place’ last year, which showed a ‘concrete water tank’ stadium dwarfing the surrounding buildings.
Cox director Stuart Harper said that as ‘Our Place’ does not have access to the latest technical drawings, it would be “very difficult” for them to “accurately recreate” a 3D image of the stadium.
“Without access to current design information, any renders produced will be purely speculative and imprecise,” he said.
“Our renders represent the selected external materials and demonstrate where there is transparency, cladding, entries, etc…”
However, ‘Our Place’ spokesperson Roland Browne claimed on Friday that their original renders “have subsequently been proven to be correct” and released an updated design “professionally produced by architects”.
“A building of this immense size is clearly wrong for Hobart’s historic waterfront and highly destructive of what makes our city celebrated,” he said.
“You just can’t hide how huge and how utterly inappropriately sited this stadium will be. At 54 metres high, it is 25% higher than the original proposal, three storeys higher than the Grand Chancellor and only six metres short of the height of the Tasman Bridge.”
“Every Tasmanian who cares about our city’s unique beauty will be horrified.”
“The new design is even bigger and far, far worse in its impacts than even the original stadium promised by the Rockliff government.”
Other concept images of the 23,000-seat roofed stadium from Davey Street and above were made public on Sunday.
Further designs and images from all angles, including the Cenotaph, will be released in the Project of State Significance documents later this month.
