New Camp Nou

[gillinghamrover]

At the risk of \"Shef Utd lose appeal\" etc!

http://www.fcbarcelona.cat/web/english/club/nou_camp_nou/text1.html

Looks very impressive!

[The L J Monk]

This is Norman Foster's design from a few years ago. As you say, it's very impressive, but unlikely to come to fruition unfortunately.

This excerpt from The Guardian sums up the situation:

\"Barcelona have been thinking about tarting up Camp Nou, or the Nou Camp as we Brits used to call it before everyone started putting on airs and graces and doing hi-falutin' things like getting stuff right, for the best part of a decade. As you'll no doubt have noticed, they've barely given the place a lick of paint in all that time. Sir Norman Foster was asked to redesign the place for the stadium's 50th birthday in 2007, but his proposal to add 10,000 new seats – or seats nou, if you will – weren't grand enough. Then came the credit crunch, and that was that. A local architect has since tried to steal a march on Foster by unveiling plans for a stadium to be built in the sea, but he could be an Espanyol fan taking the mick, who knows.