Stadium Update
By: Inara | September 20th, 2007This is me, pretending that last night never happened. As Pride of Lyon pointed out, there are some things to smile about this morning.
Last week, I posted some information on Lyon’s new stadium project. Today (perhaps because Aulas thought the fans needed some reassurance that we weren’t headed to Ligue 2), the official website posted the first artistic renderings of their as of yet unnamed stadium. I personally think it looks like an underwater sea creature, but I guess that’s kind of cool.
Edit: I added more pictures.
The inside.
Recap:
The stadium will have 60,000 seats, 7,000 parking spaces, and be built over 6 hectares of property. Cost is expected to be between 250 million and 300 million euros. A retractable roof and lawn are strong possibilities. In addition, OL Land will be built over 50 hectares and contain not just the stadium but Lyon’s main offices, training grounds, two hotels, a shopping center, and a leisure park (as well as a smaller “stadium” – more like a nicer pitch with bleachers – for OL Ladies and the reserves). Completion date is envisioned to be July 2010.
There are some hiccups though. A group known as Carton Rouge (Red Card) is protesting the plans for this stadium, saying that it will be too disruptive to the Decines community (Decines is a suburb of Lyon). Also, there will be a massive amount of construction for a few years, not only on the stadium and surrounding OL Land, but also, the city will have to expand the tram and bus services to make the stadium accessible for commuters.
Aulas has promised that they are looking into the best materials for construction and will do their best to soundproof the stadium and manage traffic so that it doesn’t harm the community.
Thanks to OLWEB and Olympique et Lyonnais for the info.
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It helps me forget a certain game.
The stadium is very different from any other, and I like that. Some will like it, others won’t.
I am not really sure of the actual shape of the stadium. It looks different according to the angles.
I am surprised it will “only” cost 300 million when you look at how much the new wembley cost (was it 1.14 billion?).
I would like to know the dimensions of the pitch as well: will we play on a small technical pitch or a large fast one?I can already imagine the resort as the new sunday outing for local people.
One more thing: Aulas is a genius!
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They are quite generous with the roof.
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its huge! and so futuristic. so suiting to my screenname.
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My favorite feature, besides the fact that the stadium glows in the dark, are the cool sidewalk lamps on the walkway. I hope the builders include those.
So here’s my question – where will the CFAs and OL Ladies play? Right now, they play on the Plaine des Jeux de Gerland, which is a small pitch 400 meters away from the stadium. On the diagrams, I don’t see a similar area, since the pitches on the diagram are all for training purposes only.
Edit: Actually, I think there is one. Of the five “extra” pitches, if you look carefully, one of them seems to have bleachers. Which leaves another four pitches for training.
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Aulas sayz: “The form of the stage is original: octagonal…As the town of Lyon is a City of Light, it will be about a stage light, therefore extremely transparent using certainly techniques of durable development but always with this will of transparency. The resin of the roof will make it possible to see through with effects of light. All the spectators who will come in this stage will be protected by surface of roof which makes it possible to cover the whole of the platforms while offering functional installations that only the modern stages can allow. It will be thus about a whole of top-of-the-range technologies based on principles of durable development and ecology.”
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Glowing stadium a la Bayern Munich. I like it none the less. Forget about the loss to Barca and move on.
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This is fantastic. I love it and definately the home of a BIG club. Great vision and yes the timing of its presentation is clearly not a coincidence. I love the lights and its true about it fitting Lyon’s image as the city of lights.
In fact football apart, it also fits with a lot of the other very ambitious developments going on in the city at the moment.
I bet 20 years ago no-one (JMA apart) would ever have imagined OL looking at a stadium like this.Posted from
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I love how new stadiums look like the futuristic mothership coming to pick up Heaven’s Gate and take them to the Promised Land. Inside? Meh. Just a stadium.
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Thats the problem with stadiums, the outside can look incredible, but the inside is luxury boxes, seats (or terraces) and the pitch. But when the mother ship does come, we know where we need to be chris.
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I think no matter how futuristic stadiums can look, inside they are still…stadiums.
This is what the stadium reminds me of:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Inara47/003.jpg
A bioluminescent arena. Excellent.
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I am always a bit wary of roofs covering the stadium. Because on a sunny day, you always have weird shadows on the pitch.
I just hope it won’t spoil watching the games.
Otherwise, a roof has an advantage, it keeps the sound more in and makes a bigger crowd impression.
Can’t wait for 2010 and see great games there.Posted from
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What is concerning me more is this business about a retractable lawn. Isn’t that bad for the grass?
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Yes, some stadiums have problems with retractable lawns and have to change the lawn 4 times in a year!!!
It is a difficult choice… Money around football (concerts, …etc) or a nice lawn…
Aulas is a businessman before being a football club president, and he will do what is the best for his wallet. But he also loves olympique lyonnais, and he wants a nice pitch for them to play on…
I am sure he is also wondering what’s best, and that’s why it must not have been decided yet (not just the money issue).Posted from
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decines has a problem? decines IS a problem and they can bite my shiny crystal ass!
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Hey Inara, because im unoriginal but also because I appreciate your work very much I have decided im gonna do a piece on my (Real’s) fans. I dont want to copy your format, but I was gonnna mirror it a bit if you dont mind, you did such a good job with it. If you want you can email me cnfiske@quinnipiac.edu
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I don’t mind at all, I’m very flattered actually. I’d love to learn about other fans
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Now that I had time to cool down from the defeat in Barcelona, I want to come back on Perrin.
Ok, he completely messed up on wednesday. But his work so far is interesting.
Some people complain about his lack of experience in the high level, but it is no valid argument. Le Guen had far less experience and it didn’t stop him from being arguably the most successful coach we had.
I think Perrin is actualy doing a very good thing: he is trying the different possibilities.
Since Le Guen has used the 4-3-3. It had never really been challenged, and Houiller just kept the same way of playing.
What did Houiller brought in the 2 years as manager? nothing! He just kept the team and brought no evolution.
Perrin is trying to find a more effective team than the one we had for the last 4-5 years. He hasn’t used twice the same team this season because he is trying.
The season started 2 months ago. We have: 1 peace cup, 1 trophee des champions, 2nd in Ligue 1.
Can we legitimately complain? I’ll let you judge.I think Perrin can bring a lot to the team. Let him find his starting 11, and I’m convinced we won’t be dissappointed.
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Yes, because we’re not going to win CL. How come Kader Keita, our most expensive signing, is always on the bench? why doesn’t he start any matches?
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Scott, you brought up a good point. So good that I decided to write a post about it.
I like Perrin too. I just think he made a big mistake, but let’s hope he learned from them.
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jordo, AKK has started almost every match but was disappointing in every one until this weekend, the first where he got his eyes off his own feet and the ball and realized he had teammates. maybe his problem was that he felt he had to prove right from his first 15 minutes in an OL shirt he needed to show everybody what 18.5M€ looked like…
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