new stadium details

[SportBoy333]

http://news.maxifoot.com/info-068056_70908/football.php

Lyon : le grand stade se Décines un peu plus (08/09/2007)
L'Olympique Lyonnais veut continuer d'asseoir sa domination sur le football français et se rapprocher par la même des meilleures formations européennes. Pour ce faire, le président des Gones Jean-Michel Aulas et le maire de Lyon Gérard Collomb ont présenté leur projet de grand stade hier, révèle Le Progrès. Cette réunion s'est tenue dans la plus grande intimité entre ces derniers et les maires de l'Est lyonnais qui n'ont d'ailleurs pas manqué de faire plusieurs remarques au sujet des problèmes d'accessibilité ainsi que les nuisances sonores les soirs de matches sur le site choisi, à savoir Décines. En dépit de cela, une maquette très avancée a été proposée et le futur stade du sextuple champion de France sera clairement inspiré de l'Arena d'Amsterdam avec un toit partiellement fermé et une pelouse rétractable. Son coût devrait avoisiner les 250 millions d'euros et sera en partie financé par le "naming" (il portera le nom d'une grande entreprise pendant vingt ans moyennant un financement de cinq ou douze millions d'euros par saison). Le début des travaux est prévu pour 2008 et ils devraient durer environ 23 mois. (Par Vincent Bogard)

[Inara]

Some concept art for the new stadium:


http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Inara47/article_Stade.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Inara47/42514.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Inara47/42515.jpg

[SportBoy333]

I wonder if it will be bigger than the Velodrome.

[Catel]

60 000 seats. The same.

[lefutur]

it was actually designed by beings from the planet Krypton

http://www.crystalinks.com/supermanflying.crys.jpg


just kidding. ;) i like it a lot.

[Inara]

Let's hope it gives Lyon the special powers needed to be a big club.

[guignol]

it looks nice, and seems inspired by the musée des confluences that's going up downtown...

http://www.futura-sciences.com/uploads/tx_oxcsfutura/comprendre/d/images/577/geo_lyon.jpg

what i'm interested in is where the tram station is... i hope those people in the picture aren't just coming from a parking lot!

[guignol]

a couple more pics... the tram statio (LEA) seems to be about a km away...

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/826/14545un6.jpg

looks nice here too.

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/9993/14546qw3.jpg

[SportBoy333]

60,000 can not be the EXACT capacity. Velodrome is 60,032. I want to know the EXACT number for this stadium.

[guignol]

60,033... isn't that obvious?

[SportBoy333]

Actually though there has never been a match at the Velodrome that had 60,000 people. I read that the highest match attendance ever was 58,897 for a match vs Newcastle. If you want to host a Champions League final you need a 60,000 seat stadium but with fire laws and such if the capacity was exactly 60,000 then you could only hold 58,000 + for the match. I think they need 61,000-63,000 seats to ensure they get the 60,000 crowd for the final match. UEFA might not give Lyon the final if theres not at least 62,000 seats.

[guignol]

... to host a Champions League final you need a 60,000 seat stadium but with fire laws and such if the capacity was exactly 60,000 then you could only hold 58,000 + for the match...yes and no. if it's true that in most existing stadiums you can't fill every seat and still respect all the safety requirements, separate opposing fans etc., that's because they were built to other norms in other days. a stadium built today will be designed in a way that every seat can be used in CL config... otherwise they wouldn't put a seat there!

anyway, i came back to this thread because i just saw some sumptuous new pictures from HOK (the architects designing the stadium, who also did emirates); instead of hotlinking i direct you to a thread on an architectural forum which treats OLLand in depth:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=343210&page=14