Proposals for mixed use developments in the surrounding former light industrial areas continue to ripple out from the stadium core facility. Rod Sheard. Megan Ashfield. Dale Jennins. Mark Craine. Wembley Stadium London, UK. Jump to Facts and Figures Awards Meet the team. The challenge in reinventing it for a new century was to build on its extraordinary heritage and yet create a venue that would be memorable and magical in its own right.
With 90, seats, standing almost four times the height and covering twice the area of the original, the new stadium is the largest covered arena in the world. The stadium's facilities are designed to maximise spectator enjoyment; the seats are larger than before, with much more leg-room; the highest tiers are easily accessed via escalators; and the concourse that wraps around the building can provide catering for 40, spectators at any one time.
One of the things that make the stadium special is the retractable roof, which ensures that the spectator experience is comfortable in all weathers.
When the roof is open it ensures that the turf receives sufficient sunlight and air to keep it in perfect condition, while in poor weather it can be closed to cover the entire seating bowl.
The roof is supported structurally by a metre-high arch that soars above the stadium. An iconic replacement for the old building's twin towers, floodlit at night it is a strong symbol for Wembley and an instantly recognisable London landmark. The venue for the Olympics football finals, the stadium is designed to be ideal for the sport. Its geometry and steeply raked seating tiers ensure that everyone has an unobstructed view of the game. To recreate the intimate atmosphere and the distinctive 'Wembley roar' for which the old stadium was famous, the seats are located as close to the pitch as possible.
A circumferential double compression ring around the upper terrace anchors the supporting cables and transmits horizontal loads around to tripod shear legs. The north roof is tied to the arch with cables, and the east, south and west roofs have retractable edge panels to allow sunlight to shine onto the pitch. Two forms of the roof had to be produced to model in the dead loading and member preset positions. The roof was erected onto 6, tons of temporary towers, which were removed when the supporting tensile loads were applied to the arch cables.
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Bates quit as chairman in February He described the latter's performance as especially abject: 'Every promise and forecast which they made has simply not been delivered. One of Bates's and Wembley's loudest critics was Kate Hoey, the former Labour sports minister, who thought it absurd that lottery money should be used to subsidise a football stadium.
Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, is a former athlete, a champion high-jumper, and was distressed that the accepted design for Wembley promised only an add-on temporary facility for athletics.
When I spoke to her a few weeks ago, her sense of outrage had scarcely abated. Many people will probably blame me and Chris Smith [the former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport] for the delay, but most of the delay has come after we stopped being involved. The day before we spoke, she had visited Arsenal's new stadium, in north London, which she couldn't praise enough. It will certainly please those who lord themselves with corporate entertainment.
Here, Sir Geoff Hurst, the man who has the greatest Wembley story of all, was being paid to relive past glories. Then Hurst got up to speak. But he was there to market the new Wembley 'So many toilets; every seat an uninterrupted view' and, in particular, something called Club Wembley. If you don't buy a seat at Club Wembley, he said, you'll regret it for the rest of your life, just like those people who had a chance of attending the final and thought they'd watch it on television instead.
Club Wembley is the scheme that saved Wembley when the banks became nervous. Michael Cunnah - a former FA and Coca-Cola Schweppes finance director - came up with the ultimate prawn sandwich, a scheme that contained everything that had been learnt about corporate entertainment since the concept was invented.
Club Wembley combined season ticket, debenture, posh dining, executive toilets, padded seats and reserved parking. You buy a year licence as a down payment, then you buy the same seat for 10 years, or until you run out of money.
Though there is no guarantee of a seat for the Olympics football final or any future World Cup final matches, you also get an option to see the end-of-season play-offs and pop concerts. Backers were reassured that the stadium would not only be completed, but also offer a return on their investment - the Club Wembley facilities will be used to host weddings and awards ceremonies on non-matchdays. It may be 'incredible', but it is also expensive, prohibitively expensive: by the time you've paid it off your credit card, Beckham could be dead.
All the seats are in the middle three tiers, but what you pay is determined by where you sit. Bring your own vol-au-vents. If your bank manager gets difficult about the overdraft, you can always resell tickets for individual games, but only via Club Wembley, which will determine the fair market value and take a 15 per cent cut. Absolutely, and it was clear from my conversations that Sheard, Cunnah and the FA are pretty desperate to sell them. Of the 15, Club Wembley seats put on sale two years ago, about half have been sold, with the more expensive ones going first.
Cunnah insists that sales are in line with the business plan's target and he expects a further increase as the opening nears. With us, we don't have that registered fanbase, although everyone is a potential purchaser.
We have to be fairly relentless all the time to find those people. So will the stadium be ready for the FA Cup final in May next year? The red plastic seats have already been screwed into the last row of the top tier of the stadium.
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