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Interview with architect Lord Foster on Manchester United's proposed new stadium
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11/03/2025
Interview with architect and designer Lord Norman Foster on Manchester United's plans to build a proposed new 100,000 capacity stadium at a cost of around 2 billion pounds
Manchester, UK
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This has to be one of the most exciting projects in the world today.
00:07
It starts with the most famous football club in the world.
00:11
A billion followers globally.
00:14
So it starts with the fans.
00:17
It starts with the idea of making something which is so intense
00:22
it brings you close to the pitch.
00:24
Acoustically, it cultivates the roar.
00:29
As you move away from the stadium,
00:31
it's not a fortress surrounded by a sea of cars.
00:35
It's open.
00:36
And it's contained by an umbrella that harvests solar energy,
00:40
harvests rainwater, but it's protective.
00:43
And it encloses arguably the largest public space in the world.
00:50
It's welcoming, it's open,
00:52
it's at the very heart of a new neighbourhood.
00:56
And then it's part of the city of Manchester,
00:59
the fastest growing city in the United Kingdom.
01:02
A city, again, like no other.
01:05
It's a powerhouse, steeped in history.
01:08
Trafford Park was the industrial heartland of the nation,
01:13
a heritage which I have a personal connection to.
01:17
My father was a factory worker at Metropolitan Vickers.
01:21
And then the three masts, the Trident,
01:24
visible from 40 kilometres, 200 metres high.
01:28
So this becomes a global destination.
01:32
Normally a stadium would take 10 years to build.
01:36
We half that time, five years.
01:39
How do we do that?
01:40
By prefabrication,
01:42
by using the network of Manchester Ship Canal,
01:46
bringing it back to a new life,
01:49
shipping in components, 160 of them, Meccano-like.
01:54
And then we rebuild the old Trafford Station.
01:58
And that becomes the pivot, the processional way to the stadium.
02:03
Welcoming and at the heart of a new sports-led neighbourhood.
02:08
It's walkable, it's well served by public transport,
02:13
it's endowed by nature,
02:15
it learns from the past, it creates streets.
02:18
It's a mixed-use mini-city.
02:23
So what makes a global destination?
02:26
What makes something so special?
02:28
It's teamwork.
02:29
It's the best brains, the civic leaders,
02:32
the owners, the consultants, the engineers,
02:35
the architects, the fans.
02:37
The list is so long.
02:39
It's a team effort.
02:41
That is at heart of the success of this project.
02:48
The World Cup is a project of the World Cup Foundation
02:52
and the European Union.
02:54
The World Cup is a project of the European Union.
02:57
The World Cup is a project of the European Union.
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