Stadium

The Dunedin City Council may seek to retain ownership of Carisbrook and develop the site, rather than selling it, it has been confirmed.

A more cautious approach to visitors may be needed at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium, contractors are warning, following two accidents and 11 "near misses" at the construction site.

Work started on painting Otago's $200 million Forsyth Barr Stadium yesterday. And, surprisingly, red and black were the most popular colour choices for the new home of Otago rugby.

Murray McCully says he is impressed by progress made at the Forsyth Barr Stadium and feels the Rugby World Cup is on track.

Most of the cement has been poured. Now the construction of Forsyth Barr Stadium is largely down to nuts and bolts.

The roof on Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium would be able to withstand a storm similar to that experienced in Melbourne on Saturday, in which hailstones the size of lemons caused major damage.

It may not be a surprise they hold these views - they did, after all, design the Forsyth Barr Stadium - but Richard Breslin and Marko den Breems think the building near Dunedin's waterfront is a winner. David Loughrey talks to the two men who took the stadium from an idea to a reality.

A crane lifts the first of 12 piles into place for the new State Highway 88 bridge across the Water of Leith on the harbour side of the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin yesterday.

A forecast financial surplus of more than $3 million for the company set up to run the Forsyth Barr Stadium has come with extensive warnings of the risks the company faces in "an uncertain future commercial environment".

Construction work is ready to begin in the next few days on the new bridge over the Water of Leith that will carry State Highway 88 past the new Forsyth Barr Stadium.