Stadium of the year 2008

[Mo Rush]

SSC Stadium of the year 2009, aims to acknowledge and appreciate the best in stadium design this year, across the world.

There are two categories in which a stadium can be nominated:
A. A stadium of capacity >40,000 seats completed in the year 2008
B. A stadium of capacity <40,000 seats completed in the year 2008.

Completed, implies that stadium construction and overlay e.g. completion of suites/sound systems, are BOTH complete. Ideally, the stadium would have hosted its first test event in 2008 or before 31 December 2008.

Nominations will take place during the next week or two.
A nomination should be listed as follows.

Stadium Name/Title:
Club:
City:
Country:
Image: ONE image of the stadium exterior and ONE image of the stadium interior.
Images must be of a reasonable size

Links: Links to a MAXIMUM of five other sources where more information can be found regarding the design.
Capacity:
Architect(s):

Any one forumer may nominate only ONE stadium in each category.

Depending on the entries/nominations, a shortlist will take place carried out Mo Rush, Sercan and Michal.

The final decision will be a public vote carried out in the same manner as the IOC vote.

[Mo Rush]

I'll start.

Category B

Stadium Name/Title: Ljudski vrt stadium
Club: NK Maribor
City: Maribor
Country: Slovenia

Exterior



Interior



Links:
1. Bustler
2. Construction images
3. OFIS Architects Website


Capacity:12,500
Architect(s):OFIS Architects

[KingmanIII]

Uhhh...what about arenas?

[Mo Rush]

Originally Posted by KingmanIII

Uhhh...what about arenas?

separate competition.

[Carrerra]

IMO this thread had better focus on football specific stadiums - I mean the kind of sport fields which has no tracks around the pitch and are designed primarily for association football. Regarding arenas or other kinds of sporting venues, you'd better create another thread.

[Carrerra]

Here is entry No2

Name : Stade des Alpes

[Stadium Profile]
Club : Grenoble Foot 38 (French 1st division. Promoted from 2nd division this season)
City : Grenoble
Country : France
Opened : Feb 2008
Capacity : 20,068 (According to wikipedia)
Cost : 88 Million Euros
Remark : This stadium uses solar panels and produces more than 70,000 Wh per year (Source : Wikipedia)

[Exterior shot]


[Interior shot]

[Carrerra]

Entry No3

Name : Dnipro Stadium

[Stadium Profile]
Club : FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian 1st division)
City : Dnipropetrovsk
Country : Ukraine
Opened : Sep 2008
Capacity : 31,003 (According to wikipedia)
Cost : 40 Million Euros (Unbelievably cheap!)
Remark : The first Euro 2012 stadiums which came to completion

[Exterior shot]
image hosted on flickr


[Interior shot]

[Mo Rush]

Originally Posted by Carrerra

Entry No3

Name : Dnipro Stadium

[Stadium Profile]
Club : FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian 1st division)
City : Dnipropetrovsk
Country : Ukraine
Opened : Sep 2008
Capacity : 31,003 (According to wikipedia)
Cost : 40 Million Euros (Unbelievably cheap!)
Remark : The first Euro 2012 stadiums which came to completion

[Exterior shot]
image hosted on flickr


[Interior shot]

Any one forumer may nominate only ONE stadium in each category.

[cholo3pa]

Originally Posted by Carrerra

Entry No3

Name : Dnipro Stadium

[Stadium Profile]
Club : FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian 1st division)
City : Dnipropetrovsk
Country : Ukraine
Opened : Sep 2008
Capacity : 31,003 (According to wikipedia)
Cost : 40 Million Euros (Unbelievably cheap!)
Remark : The first Euro 2012 stadiums which came to completion

[Exterior shot]
image hosted on flickr


[Interior shot]

It's very similar to the Stanford Bridge (Chelsea FC)

[cornelinho]

no it dose not

[Carrerra]

Originally Posted by Mo Rush

Depending on the entries/nominations, a shortlist will take place carried out by Mo Rush, Sercan and Michal.

The final decision will be a public vote carried out in the same manner as the IOC vote.

Mo Rush, you said a shortlist of the nominees but IMO we might not need it because there are only a few football specific stadiums which opened within the year - As far as I know just 4-5 or so? Anyway it is certain that the number of the nominees won't go beyond 10

[Mo Rush]

Originally Posted by Carrerra

Mo Rush, you said a shortlist of the nominees but IMO we might not need it because there are only a few football specific stadiums which opened within the year - As far as I know just 4-5 or so? Anyway it is certain that the number of the nominees won't go beyond 10

We'll see how it goes.

[Capital78]

Maribor has a beautiful stsdium. It's the best and the most modern stadium in region of former Yugoslavia. But it still isn't finished, it's full capacity will be 13.000. Inside the stands will be other sport halls.

[www.sercan.de]

Category A

Stadium Name/Title: National Stadium
Club: -
City: Beijing
Country: China
Capacity: 91,000 (80,000)
Architects: Herzog & de Meuron

Exterior
image hosted on flickr


Interior



Links
Beijing National Stadium

[Carrerra]

Sercan, isn't this non football specific?

[www.sercan.de]

Ups, i thought just stadium

[Benjuk]

Originally Posted by www.sercan.de

Ups, i thought just stadium

I thought it was any stadium - I think only Carrera has stipulated football specific (after Mo Rush set the thread in motion).

I'll second Sercan's National Stadium vote for the over 40k catagory. Can't see how it can be beaten.

[Alli]

Category B

Stadium Name/Title: Stadion Eden
Club: SK Slavia Praha
City: Praha
Country: Czech Republic
Capacity: 21,000


Exterior


Interior



www.stadioneden.cz
www.stadiontour.at

[Carrerra]

Benjuk, why don't you look up Wikipedia for the acronym SSC?

[Benjuk]

Originally Posted by Carrerra

Benjuk, why don't you look up Wikipedia for the acronym SSC?

I thought it was SkyScraperCity.

The initial post talks of stadiums not football/soccer stadiums.