Football clubs Inter Milan and AC Milan have announced that the iconic San Siro will be replaced by a stadium designed by architecture studio Populous.
Named the Cathedral, the new stadium in Milan will be home to Italian top-tier football clubs AC Milan and Internazionale Milano, also known as Inter Milan. It will replace the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, which is widely known as the San Siro and has been home to the clubs since 1926.
The Cathedral stadium will replace the San Siro
Designed by Populous, the form of the new stadium was informed by two of the city's best-known buildings, the Duomo di Milano cathedral and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele shopping arcade.
The 60,000-seat venue will have a rectangular shape and be surrounded by vertical fins. These fins will extend outwards from the stadium to support a glass wall that will enclose a space described by the studio as a "sunlit galleria".
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Inside, the stadium's bowl was designed to be the "most intimate in Europe", by placing fans as close as possible to the pitch.
The stadium will be topped with photovoltaic panels and rainwater will be collected from the roof and reused.
It will be surrounded by a concourse informed by the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
"The Cathedral will become one of the most iconic stadiums in world football," said Populous managing director Christopher Lee.
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