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The stadium will feature an artificial pitch – hidden under a retractable grass field – allowing Spurs to host two NFL games each season
Tottenham appoints MACE to build new £400m stadium – reveals detailed designs
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (THFC)
has turned to Mace to create the preconstruction
plans for the £400m
re-building of its White Hart Lane stadium
in north London. Mace has been tasked
with developing detailed programmes and
working with the Premier League club to
produce specialist sub-contractor tenders
before work begins.
Building work on the development is
expected to be completed by 2018.
THFC plans to demolish White Hart Lane
and build a new 61,000 flexible stadium
– set to become the largest club stadium
in London. The project will include four
asymmetrical stands, a stadium wrapped
in a sculptured mesh and a glass facade
to the new home end. There will also be
special design features to allow Spurs to
host two National Football League (NFL)
games each season under a 10-year
partnership signed with the NFL in July.
A retractable grass field, used by Spurs
for its home games, will hide underneath
The stadium will be built on the site of
Tottenham’s current home, White Hart Lane
it an artificial surface – which will be used
to host the NFL games. The artificial
playing surface will also be capable of
hosting other sporting, entertainment
and community events. Plans also show
that the stadium will have three tunnels,
one for football and one each for the NFL
home and away sides.
The asymmetrical stands will allow
supporters to be closer to the pitch than
at any other comparably sized stadium,
while the home ‘kop’ stand will be the
largest in the country, holding 17,000 fans.
Spurs are also planning to establish an
entertainment district around the stadium,
with plans in place for a 180-room hotel,
an extreme sports centre, a “Sky Walk”
adrenaline attraction on the roof of the
stadium and a “Tottenham Experience” – a
permanent visitor attraction and museum
charting the club’s history.
There will also be 579 new homes, a
new community health centre and improved
street infrastructure to better deal with
crowd management issues.
Sports architects Populous have been
appointed to design the stadium, the hotel
and the visitor attractions, while Allies
& Morrison will be responsible for the
design of the new homes. Donald Insall
Associates have been named as heritage
architects. When complete, the stadium
capacity will surpass that of Spurs’ fierce
north London rival Arsenal FC, which plays
at the 60,4432-capacity Emirates Stadium.
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