Beautiful, they've really done a worthy job on this one. It looks to be a stadium that England can be proud of.
It better look good too after the fucking ridiculous amount of time it took! It didn't seem to take the Emirates that long to complete, but then again they had the help of Henry, Vieira, Wenger and co.
No offence to any Arsenal fans but it makes the emirates look like my school field 5 key facts • It will be the largest covered football stadium in the world, seating 90,000 • Spectators will have approximately 30% more seating space compared with the old stadium • The legendary atmosphere will be even better, thanks to the state of the acoustic design • Fans will enjoy the best facilities in world sport • It’s opening in Spring 2006 The Experience • With 90,000 seats Wembley will be the largest football stadium in the world where all spectators are covered by a roof. • Spectators will enjoy approximately 30% more seating space compared to the old stadium – fans will have more legroom than the old royal box. • All spectators will have fantastic, unobstructed views of the action. Front row seats will be close to the pitch with no running track between. • The new stadium’s acoustics have been developed to ensure a reverberant atmosphere so the crowd will generate a new Wembley Roar. • Wembley will host many unique and World Class football matches including all senior England internationals, The FA Cup Final and Semi-Finals, The FA Community Shield, the Divisional play off finals and the League Cup Final • The roof will be retractable, allowing the natural grass pitch to be exposed to extra natural sunlight and ventilation to help maintain it in good health. With the roof in its retracted position, FA Cup finals can be played on a sun-lit pitch, as they were in the old stadium. • The trophy presentation route to the Royal Box, one of the most recognised features of the old Wembley, will also be part of the new stadium with teams walking up to the box to collect their trophies • Support for a new Wembley has been received from many famous football personalities including David Beckham, Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, Sven Goran Eriksson and Sir Bobby Charlton • Fans say England should have a world beating national stadium at the spiritual home of football. It will be a special place for fans and players alike • Wembley will be the best place to experience the true passion and magic of football The Bottom Line • The stadium will be built using the largest amount of private money ever raised to fund a project of this type (£433m) • The FA is contributing £138m to the project. Sport England have contributed £120m • The basic building cost is £352m • Additional costs such as site purchase, demolition, design, funding as well as all fitting out costs take the total to £757m • During the building process Wembley will be one of biggest construction sites in London and will employ up to 1,500 people • Once complete it is estimated the stadium will generate nearly 8,000 permanent jobs and over £140m of expenditure in the London economy each year • The construction of the new Wembley will create some £750m of direct investment in the Wembley area. Plans include a new music and concert venue, new housing and revitalised offices and industrial estates • London Underground is undertaking a £35m upgrading of Wembley Park Station. It will have a new capacity of 50,000 passengers per hour compared to 35,000 at present - a 42% increase • Wembley Central Station is also receiving a £20m upgrade. A further £20m is also earmarked for Wembley Stadium Station Building the Best • Demolition work began in September 2002 and construction of the new stadium is well underway • The stadium will be completed in Spring 2006!!!!!!!!!!!!!! • Wembley has assembled the world’s leading companies to build and provide services in the new stadium including architects Foster and Partners with HOK , Multiplex Constructions (responsible for Stadium Australia), Mott Stadium Consortium and IMG • Independent research shows that over 60% of the English public think Wembley is the best place for a National Stadium • For major athletics events, an international standard athletics arena can be created within the stadium on a temporary platform which can be assembled in 11 weeks and removed within 6 weeks • With its distinctive 133 metre-high arch, Wembley will become one of London’s landmark buildings and a sporting global icon • Wembley will offer the best in entertainment - hosting many unique and World Class events: international and club football, rugby league and concerts • There will be more than 2000 toilets in the stadium, possibly more than any other building in the world. • There will also be 478 food service points and the stadium will have nearly twice as many wheelchair spaces as the old stadium Construction Statistics • The new stadium will have a circumference of 1 kilometres • The rows of seating terracing, if placed end to end, would stretch 54 kilometres • 3,700 separate piles will form the foundations of the new stadium. The deepest of these, at 35 metres, is as deep as the Wembley Twin Towers were tall • There will be 35 miles of heavy-duty power cables in the stadium • Some 90,000 m3 of concrete and 23,000 tonnes of structural steel will be used in the construction of the new stadium • The roof structure alone will weigh almost 7,000 tonnes. • The new pitch will be 4 metres lower than the pitch in the old stadium
My shit is nicer than the new England strip but Wembley looks class really does puts the Emirates to shame and thats saying something.
