Sometimes you just have to laugh. There is a professional basketball team in the United States called the Golden State Warriors. And anything with the name ‘gold’, on the balance of probabilities, would refer to San Francisco, home of that golden piece of architecture. The Golden Gate Bridge.
You might be interested to know that another piece of architecture is being planned for San Francisco that is anything but gold, although some of these structures have been made of gold. And it’s a structure that has a lot to do with the Golden State Warriors basketball team.
You will see that architectural drawings have been released showing the new basketball arena for this proud team. But somehow, somewhere, someone got their design wrong. The new stadium is shaped like a basin. Yes a bathroom. Not everything, just some. I’m talking about the seat and lid. Someone else with a sense of humor suggests that the 18,000-seat arena would be a better fit for another basketball team called the Sacramento Kings because it looks like a throne.
The launch of the design sends social media crashing, unsurprisingly.
Even two of the Golden State Warriors’ star players got in on the act. Guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson are known as the Splash Brothers due to their 3-point shooting ability. They tweeted: What’s wrong with the Warriors arena design? Sure, it looks like a toilet bowl, but they’ve got the Splash Brothers. Ha ha.
Now you’ll notice that I’ve avoided making references to being full of success, either this is a bunch of crap or the design needs to be canned. Those are clichés for people without imagination.
Warriors management was quick to assure everyone that the drawings would not be the final product. A team spokesperson said the club was confident that when the design is further refined and really comes together, people will not only see what the Golden State Warriors are trying to achieve, but they will see a more beautiful representation. They would say that it is not so. He loosely translated what he’s saying: We’ve squashed the architects and told them they have to come up with something much better in the design department instead of a stadium that looks like a toilet.
Frankly, I’m not buying any of this. I mean, don’t these people have eyes? You would have to be legally blind not to see what the proposed new stadium design looks like the second you saw the drawing. It is shaped like a toilet. End of story. I mean you wouldn’t release the designs to the public to be ridiculed, right? I guess the really troubling aspect of this is the fact that it was only after people started pointing out the blinding obvious that the Golden State Warriors management decided to respond in the way it has, by trying to put a positive spin on it. . Of course, ‘try’ is the operative word.
But if you thought this was too funny for words, think about the sports authorities in Qatar in the Middle East. They are building the Al-Wakrah sports stadium for the 2022 soccer World Cup. It looks like a giant vagina.