Yahoo News The A's Proposed Stadium Looks Hilariously Like World-Famous Building
The Oakland A’s are not relocating to another hemisphere, but it sure looked like it on Tuesday.
The team released renderings of its proposed stadium in Las Vegas, and it looks conspicuously like the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
The franchise is hoping the planned $1.5 billion project will be its home in 2028, Associated Press reported.
But in the meantime, X users are cracking wise on a complex that looks more appropriate for arias than ERAs.
Here’s the iconic Sydney Opera House:
And here’s the A’s Sin City version:
Together with @BIG_Architects and @HNTBCorp, we have unveiled the design for our new ballpark project in Las Vegas on the Tropicana site. BIG will serve as the design lead and HNTB as the sports/hospitality designer and architect of record.
Images by Negativ pic.twitter.com/mvpiCBXD54— Oakland A's (@Athletics) March 5, 2024
“If I were the Sydney Opera House I’d sue for copyright infringement,” one critic wrote.
And there was plenty of other commentary on the similarity:
Imagine kicking the A’s out of Oakland for them to play in a rip off Sydney Opera House looking stadium in Vegas. A damn shame. pic.twitter.com/AICC81YYfI
— Courtney Finnicum (@courtney883) March 5, 2024
NEWS: The Oakland A’s are playing at their new stadium in Sydney, Australia. https://t.co/LnYmXyO7uEpic.twitter.com/WG7d6S2ybx
— Dylan Manfre (@Dylan_Manfre11) March 5, 2024
I bet I could create the same renderings with the prompt "Sydney Opera House Oakland A's baseball stadium" https://t.co/0DU6pb0hGs
— LoganB5⚾️ (@Nati_Logan5) March 6, 2024
The way I first thought the rendering of the A's LV stadium was some weird shot of Sydney Opera House... hahahaa. I dig the green though?
— Lisa K.💙🐅🧡 (@LK33JD) March 6, 2024
The New Vegas A’s proposed stadium looks like a knock off of The Sydney Opera House 🤣
I’ll still go though ⚾️— Guy C. D'Occhio (@GCD3417) March 6, 2024
Did you see the “artist renderings” of the Vegas A’s stadium? If I were the Sydney Opera House I’d sue for copyright infringement…
— Jay Alan Wierenga (@jayalanw) March 6, 2024
