The roof for the new stadium of the football club Manchester United will be erected from steel

Manchester United announced plans to build a new stadium near the old one, and steel will be one of its main components.
Co -owner of Manchester United Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the British architect Foster + Partners set the best football stadium in the world. This means that the fans should be in the first place, as well as clear lines of field viewing and magnificent acoustics.
To achieve this goal, Foster + Partners plans to build a huge glass of glass and steel, supported by three masts of 200 meters high, which will make it the highest structure in Manchester.

These masts will be installed around the main stadium so that the canopy can cover the stadium and the public area around it, twice as large as the area of ​​the trafalgar in London. This huge canopy of glass began to protect fans from the sun and rain, collect rain water and generate solar energy. After the construction is completed, the new stadium should accommodate 100,000 seats, which will make it the largest stadium in the UK and the second largest stadium in Europe after the Barcelona Kampa Nou.

The date of the start of the project has not yet been indicated, but it is planned to build it in five years, which will double the typical 10-year period of construction of the stadium in the UK, since the project uses modular construction. Many of the 160 prefabricated components will be delivered by water through a nearby Manchester shipping channel.

Foster + Partners is also instructed to rebuild the entire area of ​​the old Trafford stadium, which covers the land belonging to the club around the existing stadium. This can lead to construction up to 17,000 houses. Lord Foster, founder and executive chairman of Foster + Partners, said: “As a proud Manchester, I am passionate about the opportunity to rebuild the great industrial heritage of Manchester, creating a new bright multifunctional community served by high -resistant and improved transport connections, providing housing and workplaces for the local class, and all this is reinforced by the stadium of the world class for itself The famous football team of the world is Manchester United. ”

It remains to answer many questions related to the planning and financing of this scheme, but one thing can be said for sure: steel will become the basis of New Trifford with the football club Manchester United.