Designing four of the official 2030 World Cup venues
It’s official, FIFA has just announced the official host cities for the 2030 World Cup: Morocco, Spain and Portugal, and that the three opening matches will be played in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
We are honored to be behind the project for four of them:
San Mamés Stadium: winner of the 2015 World Stadium Congress – Stadium of the Year Award, first prize at the World Architecture Festival Awards in the same year, and the 2017 Structural Awards, among others; it has been in operation for ten years and did not need any work to host the World Cup.
The Spotify Camp Nou: is undergoing a major renovation, with a design that strikes a balance between preserving and enhancing the 1957 project by Mitjans, Soteras and García-Barbón. The new stadium will hold 104,000 spectators, making it a candidate to host the final.
The Más Monumental stadium of Club Atlético River Plate (Argentina): the proposed design preserves the essence and tradition of the historic stadium, while undergoing an intense transformation to adapt it to the needs and standards of modern football in the 21st century: increasing its capacity to make it the largest in South America and improving fan comfort, services and access to the stadium. To achieve this, the athletics track has been removed and replaced with a dedicated football stadium with continuous stands and new seating for 84,500.
The New Romareda, the only new stadium to be built in Spain for the 2030 World Cup, with 42,500 seats. In this case, the compactness of the volume and the uniformity of the façade were key to the realization of the new stadium, due to the variety of uses (tertiary and sports) that it will house.
n recent weeks, our colleagues Javier Dávila, Javier Mora and Samuel Araneda have presented our work on these stadiums at three different forums: the Coliseum Summit LATAM 2024 in Monterrey, the TheStadiumBusiness Design & Development Summit 2024 in Manchester and the GoLatam Summit 2024 in Santiago de Chile.
December 16, 2024
