Does anybody else

[Trotsky]

I have asked The Community: http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?p=2391367#post2391367

[Chris \'03]

[quote billhoward]
Maybe the 100-piece band helped fill the seats.[/quote]

I'm not sure the band had anything to do with the sellout, but they were damn impressive form what you could see on the CSTV broadcast. They did a lengthy show on the ice between periods complete with a percussion pit and color guard. The guard used flags from the 12 CCHA schools.

[ithacat]

I can't figure it out either and it's starting to worry me. Stairs? As hard as it may be to entice a top-ranked team to come to Ithaca, adding stairs to the deal proabably means RIT & Niagara might be as good as it gets.

If they can't figure out how to enclose the bowl, add top facilities for players, fans, and the media, and have the locker rooms on the same level as the ice...it's time to say good-bye to Lynah (I'll put myself in the box for 5 posts for saying that). :-(

I'm also surprised to read that there's room (height) to add 3 rows of seats behind the student section.

Interesting, it shall be...

[billhoward]

It would be too much to hope that Ithaca town hall is fully electronic and you could view the plans and filings online.

Now I'm really dying to see the architect renderings.

Lynah must be off the radar for Cornell faculty. Most building work on campus proper has the architecture school atwitter about something or other. Probably not when it comes to digging a hole next to a half-century-old quonset hut.

[KeithK]

The visitors locker room won't be south of the rink in any case, so stairs wont affect them whether I'm right or talking out of my ass.  Visiting teams are going to take over the old locker rooms.

[q]If they can't figure out how to enclose the bowl, add top facilities for players, fans, and the media, and have the locker rooms on the same level as the ice...it's time to say good-bye to Lynah (I'll put myself in the box for 5 posts for saying that).[/q]So you'd rather have an anti-septic new rink than Lynah without enclosed seating?  Geez.  You're entitled to your opinion but I'd give you at least a game misconduct for that...

[Trotsky]

DQ.  He has to sit out the next thread.

[Chris \'03]

[quote ithacat]I can't figure it out either and it's starting to worry me. Stairs? [/quote]

The stairs in Yost haven't hurt Michigan...

[schoaff]

Hmm, maybe they could design in something like that path from the changing house to the ice in "Mystery Alaska" ;-)

[calgARI '07]

[quote schoaff]Hmm, maybe they could design in something like that path from the changing house to the ice in "Mystery Alaska" ;-)[/quote]

Anybody ever wonder how they got back up to that changing house?  I don't think you  can skate up hill.

[DeltaOne81]

[quote calgARI '07]
Anybody ever wonder how they got back up to that changing house?  I don't think you  can skate up hill.[/quote]

Sure ya can... within reason. Would take a lot of effort though.

[Rich S]

it can be a useful training exercise that some coaches I know have used.  Not a lot of fun of course.

[RichH]

[quote calgARI '07][quote schoaff]Hmm, maybe they could design in something like that path from the changing house to the ice in "Mystery Alaska" ;-)[/quote]

Anybody ever wonder how they got back up to that changing house?  I don't think you  can skate up hill.[/quote]

Ever try to inline skate around Ithaca?  You learn to skate uphill awfully fast.  And I imagine ice skates can dig in well, if you've had them sharpened recently.

Doesn't the skating "treadmill" the CU team has have the ability to incline?

[nyc94]

[quote nyc94]Anyone know how hard it would be to put another deck on the parking garage?  If they can put a four story penthouse on a six story brownstone in Greenwich Village I think they can do anything.[/quote]

I'm answering my own question two months later (unless this is an April Fool's joke).  They are putting another level on the parking garage.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb06/roadwork.parking.fac.html

Scroll down to the next to last paragraph.

[CKinsland]

Well, if you are on campus, you can come into Baker lab and see the artist conception drawings (they are in one of the first floor hallways).

Think big glass box.  The face of Baker that faces the plaza will be kept, but incased in a big glass atrium.

The conceptions are particularly amusing because they have blurred people in them (like they were taking a slow-shutter shot of fast moving people).

CK

[canuck89]

Of note, there is a model of the design in the physical sciences library in Clark (When you go in, it's in the corner to the right).  I don't know if this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but it doesn't hurt.