LILLE - Le Grand Stade (50,186) - EURO 2016

[Axelferis]

Little precisions:

-Roof includes solar receptors
-Two Windumps for electricity production
-The stadium is conform with french HQE(High standard Environment Quality)
-It has the exigences to be a 5 stars UEFA!

[www.sercan.de]

3 tiers or am i wrong?
Do you know how many suites / VIP boxes it will have?

EDIT: Whats the capacity of the Basketball Arena?

[GNU]

Nice arena.
Finally therell be a proper big ground in France aside from the SDF
That Basketball lowering setup is pretty intesting btw.
Has that been done before in this specific way?

[GunnerJacket]

I'm impressed, actually. Simplistic in form but that belies the efficiency of the structure, an aspect often taken for granted. Personally I'm growing weary of the "wrapped" look for stadiums, but as mentioned earlier this exterior has multiple functions.

Well done, and I hope Lille can regulalry fill it up! Cheers!

[Axelferis]

For the moment i don't know the number of suites but alongside the stadium

there will have buildings for:

-Restaurants
-Hotels
-Sport medical clinique
-Offices

And yes the basket arena was included because one demand f the city of Lille was to stress on the multifunctional aspect.
Eiffage realized it with a magistral way!!!

People around the project that this idea is NOW a reference,tops a mark in the conception of future stadiums and areas!

[www.sercan.de]

The Arenas looks big. Capacity?
Give us more information and pics

[Axelferis]

ok let's go:

50186 seats.

[Neda Say]

2009-2011: two years to get the stadium build, not bad. I can't wait to see it done. I like the fact that they decided to go green (wood, glass for the frame plus concrete for the fondations). It looks a bit conservative in terms of design but it's more like a magic box with many tricks up the sleeves.

I don't know why the city asked for an "arena but why not. It's going to be pretty hard to pack it even if they get a LNB (french basketball league) franchise.

I'm just a bit afraid of the two years to come for Lille, these are going to be two very long seasons! Not to sound awfully pessimistic but two more years in stadium will drain their finance. Grimonprez Joris was a bit bigger and they were getting it packed more often than now. A 14000 people average at every game is just dreadful. I'm afraid the team will just have to use a fire sales at the end of the seasons to stay afloat. Good luck to the manager to find cheap players and maintain the team in L1 on a shoestring!

[Axelferis]

Originally Posted by Neda Say

2009-2011: two years to get the stadium build, not bad. I can't wait to see it done. I like the fact that they decided to go green (wood, glass for the frame plus concrete for the fondations). It looks a bit conservative in terms of design but it's more like a magic box with many tricks up the sleeves.

I don't know why the city asked for an "arena but why not. It's going to be pretty hard to pack it even if they get a LNB (french basketball league) franchise.

I'm just a bit afraid of the two years to come for Lille, these are going to be two very long seasons! Not to sound awfully pessimistic but two more years in stadium will drain their finance. Grimonprez Joris was a bit bigger and they were getting it packed more often than now. A 14000 people average at every game is just dreadful. I'm afraid the team will just have to use a fire sales at the end of the seasons to stay afloat. Good luck to the manager to find cheap players and maintain the team in L1 on a shoestring!

The team management of lille club wanted the arena because it is more profitable to interest companies partnership in processus of NAMING!

If you want to make a private project( and even the public politics) you have to find arguments .

1/The purpose is when the stadium is not used for match of football international meetings,conventions,spectables could take place at any moment of the year.
They give one day the example of a cancelled concert by french rock star Johnny Haliday!!
the concert had been cancelled because it was raining this day and the Stade de France hasn't got a ...roof!!

2/The second argument is: Lille has a 7000 seats hall of spectacles and concerts BUT no arena of +10000 or 15000 fororganization of basketball or Davis cup events like Bercy in Paris!

They wanted to make 2 places of events and sport in 1 rather than wait several years to build another arena somewhere else in Lille metropolitan area!

I think now, that a lot of cities will think like lille did, because you save money in not doing 2 different studies of conception.

They also watched what had been done in arena construction field. They were in Amstersdam,Schalke,etc... to see what could be upgrade in term of quality and multifunctional use.

It is a very genuine reflection and initiative because it reaches to another level of quality and standards like i said before.

[Axelferis]

more pics from video:

[Vilak]

The arena looks like it will be 25.000 (50.000/2) + 2/3.000 seats so I bet for 27.000 seats at least.

If you talk about Tennis, a 2 week ATP tour tournament during late june/early July could very well be in the mind of Lille sport department.
Also Handball, voleyball and Basketball would love (I presume) to hold their world cup or Eurocup tournament in such an Arena.
boxing events, concerts and maybe Hockey could also be part of the schedule.

In the video, they talked about around 130 events a year.

What we need to know now is how many time it will take to pass from one configuration to another.

[Neda Say]

Very good question indeed!

[Axelferis]

all i know for the moment is that the roof needs 30 min to cover the whole stadium.
Infos are coming.

[Axelferis]

For eyes only:
(better renders)






T-R-A-N-S-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N

"Box of spectacles" according to conceptors:








The jewel in the night:



enjoy

[www.sercan.de]

Are the seats orange?

[Neda Say]

no, reddish! I think!

[Benn]

Is it just me or do the aisles in the lower level seem really wide?
Very cool basketball/tennis set up btw

[www.sercan.de]

Yeah, i have notictaht also
Comparing to the 2nd tier there are extremly wider

Any infos about the number of suites?

[Axelferis]

2nd tiers is called "business belt" . You understand that is the part which give access to suites.

But i don't know the exact number of suites

[www.sercan.de]

Actually there are mainly 3 types of "seats" in a modern stadium

Many "normal" seats
Than we have the "Business Seats" (more comfortable seats and you can go inside the stadium where there is a big lounge and eat and drink for free) and the suites / boxes wich have a balcony (3 rows in general)

So here the small tier is the "Business" level tier like at Emirates or da luz.
And like at Emirates and da luz it has also the suites.

EDIT:
You can see the 3 types very well in this pic
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7599/final16qo3.jpg

Orange = normal seats
white = Business Seats
red = seats of the boxes