Chapter 245 The most dazzling Chinese style(1/2)
Nicholas Cortez still came to St. Mary's Stadium half an hour earlier than working hours as usual.
But as soon as he arrived at St. Mary's Stadium, he was a little stunned.
There was a long queue in front of the ticket office, and there were probably more than a thousand people waiting for the ticket office to open.
"What's going on?"
Nicholas Cortes muttered to himself in surprise.
He drove to the parking lot of St. Mary's Stadium, got off the car and went straight to the ticket office.
"Mr. Chairman!"
As soon as the staff at the ticket office saw Nikola Cortez, they immediately greeted him politely.
"What's going on? So many fans outside?" Nicholas Cotes asked.
The team has sold three tiger players these days, but don’t irritate the fans and come to make trouble.
"Mr. Chairman, they... they are all here to buy season tickets."
"What?" Nicholas Cortes was a little surprised.
These people are here to buy tickets.
But wait, there are no tickets available in Southampton now!
“How many season tickets do we have on hand now?”
"Less than two hundred." The ticket office responded with a wry smile.
Many media have hyped that Southampton’s season ticket sales are terrible, but in fact it’s their storm.
Season ticket sales in Southampton have already started long before.
Before last season ended, most of the team's season tickets for the new season were sold.
Now, they have basically sold out, leaving only some of the unsold tickets for the visiting team and some mobile tickets left.
"There are at least a thousand people outside now, but there are only less than two hundred season tickets left. How to sell them?
Fans who can't buy season tickets will not drown them?
"Mr. Chairman, what should I do now?" the person in the ticket office asked with a bitter face.
The ticket sales are not good, they are hard, and the sales are too good, they are still hard.
Nicholas Cotes was not sure about it, and shook his head and smiled bitterly, "No matter what, open the door first and sell the rest before talking about it."
After hearing this, the staff felt that they could only do this.
So they started to get busy one by one.
Nicholas Cortez turned into a bitter gourd with his face, picked up his phone and called out.
"Master Huan, it's me, Nikola. We have sold out the season tickets now, but the fans are still waiting to buy tickets. What should I do?"
"What? Sell the next season? If not enough, sell the next season?"
Nicholas Cortez was sad, are the fans willing?
Book a season ticket a year or two in advance?
But soon, he started to have another headache.
That's how to appease this group of Southampton fans who can't buy season tickets.
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At this time, Yang Huan was standing at the forefront of the Southampton Ferry Terminal.
On the left is the Ichin River and on the right is the Tester River.
The two rivers meet here and form the Sorent Strait, flowing to the English Channel.
It was hot summer, and there were many yachts and passenger ships shuttled back and forth on the river and the sea, which was very lively.
Standing at the front of the passenger terminal with Yang Huan were Huang Ying and Norman Foster from London.
And behind them, there were about a dozen people measuring, calculating and talking about it.
After a long period of investigation, Norman Foster has confirmed it.
At the intersection of the two rivers, Southampton can build a football field and a hotel.
At the same time, we also created renderings based on our own creativity and ideas.
Yang Huan is now looking at these renderings using a tablet.
"This is a rendering of the football field." Huang Ying next to Yang Huan, introducing the pictures on the tablet.
Yang Huan turned her head and saw her face up close. It was white and red, but her skin was very good. She couldn't help but smile.
"Why are you laughing? Pay attention to the picture!" Huang Ying glared at him angrily.
So many people are watching, and there is also teacher Norman Foster, too, be serious.
Yang Huan immediately curled his lips and looked very serious.
"Introduce me about the creativity."
Huang Ying nodded, stretched out her little finger of spring onion, slid on her tablet, and turned to the next picture.
"As you said before, the entire design must be able to reflect the traditional Chinese flavor, and also add some modern elements."
Yang Huan nodded, this was indeed his request.
"So I was thinking, what was the first thing I thought of when it comes to China?"
Yang Huan looked at the renderings and thought about it very seriously, but she didn't think it out.
"Dragon, Chinese dragon!" Huang Ying looked at him with a slight smug look at him with an expression that you knew you could not guess.
Yang Huan nodded again, "Continue."
"To build a stadium here, you have to reclaim the sea and build an artificial island. I imagine that this is a one-stop. The dragon has nine sons, and there are nine small artificial islands around it, providing a series of supporting commercial facilities such as catering, retail stores, member service centers, etc.."
In other words, in addition to the main island where the new stadium is located, there are also nine small artificial islands.
"There is a saying in China that the five-clawed golden dragon, and the five-clawed dragon represents the giant dragon. Coincidentally, the five-pointed star also has five corners. This means that the road on the main island is the shape of a five-pointed star, and the underground parking lot is below."
Yang Huan looked at this road, there was a bit of the meaning of the dragon's claws.
Something interesting.
"Continue." He said with a smile.
"The stadium is a giant dragon, roaring to the sky and rising strongly, surrounding the world, and being invincible in the Eastern Dragon!"
After hearing what she said, Yang Huan looked at the renderings, it seemed that she really felt that way.
This rendering is really shocking, very sci-fi, and the whole stadium is very beautiful.
“There are only two roads to the artificial island where the court is located, one leads to the undersea hotel and the other leads to the city.”
Yang Huan nodded unstoppablely. This idea is indeed very good.
"This is the concept of an undersea hotel, from the mythical Dragon Palace."
Huang Ying pointed to the renderings and introduced.
"In the middle is the Panlong pillar, which is also the key to the entire hotel. It is vertically inserted into the depths of the ground!"
Yang Huan understood and pointed to the five disc buildings floating on the water on the renderings that looked a bit like spacecraft. They looked very sci-fi, "Is this UFO?"
When Huang Ying heard this, she burst into laughter.
UFO? Dragon? You can think of it!
"This idea comes from the claws of the five-clawed golden dragon, and the middle part is a bit like a giant dragon's roaring open mouth."
After all, it’s still about creativity, which is the same as the design of the stadium just now.
"Around this dragon pillar, there are nine layers in total, which means that the dragon gives birth to nine sons. Each floor is five meters away. In addition to the vertical elevator, there is also a winding dragon-shaped ladder connecting it."
In the design, whether it is a climbing ladder or an elevator, you can enjoy the surrounding sea view, which is very dreamy.
Each floor has different functions, such as restaurants, conference rooms, etc.
The building area of the bottom floor is larger than the one floating on the sea surface, and it still adopts this very sci-fi irregular disc flying saucer-shaped architectural style, with a total of more than 200 glass suites and other various luxury hotel facilities.
At first glance, the hotel's design revolves around the dragon column, but for the necessity of load-bearing, several UFO-shaped buildings also need a load-bearing column to support it.
But no matter what, judging from the renderings, the entire building is still very dreamy.
Especially the more than 200 suites with sea views under the sea, it’s so beautiful!
"It's interesting!" Yang Huan looked at the renderings and was very satisfied.
Norman Foster is a national treasure-level architectural design master, and the things he takes are different.
There is an indescribable smell everywhere.
To be continued...