Euro 2012
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about euro 2012
Project • By gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects • Stadiums
National Stadium, Warsaw, Poland
In 2012, Poland and Ukraine will be hosting the UEFA European Football Championship.
For the occasion, a new national stadium will be built in Warsaw on the existing but crumbling rubble-built Dziesieciolecia Stadium abandoned for sports uses in 1988. The stadium is in Skaryszewski Park east of the city center on the bank of the Vistula, and will form the heart of a new sports park. The construction of the stadium is divided systematically into two. The stand consists of prefabricated concrete parts. Above this is a steel wire net roof with a textile membrane hung on freestanding steel supports with inclined tie rods. The interior roof consists of a mobile membrane sail that folds together above the pitch. The video cube with four screens... More
Project • By Albert Wimmer Zt GmbH • Stadiums
Arena Lviv
The Stadium „Arena Lviv“ was designed by the Austrian architect DI Dipl. TP Albert Wimmer for the coming European Football Championship 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine. In the preparation of the construction the Bureau Wimmer also designed the master plan for the area. With the strength of past experience in constructing a football stadium – Wimmer also designed the Austrian Stadiums Salzburg, Klagenfurt and the modification of the Stadium “Tivoli neu” in Innsbruck for the European Football Championship 2008 in Austria and Switzerland – the Austrian planning team cooperated with the Ukrainian architects “Arnica” who finally filed the project.
The Arena Lviv, located in the southern part of Lviv, is one of the newest stadiums in Europe.... More
The Donbass Arena
Arup’s design skills will feature alongside the football talents of Ashley Young, Franck Ribery and the rest of the players at this year’s European Football Championships.
The Arup-designed Shaktar Donetsk 50,000-seater stadium – the Donbass Arena – will play host to the opening game in Group D between France and England, as well as several other matches, including the second semi-final.
Arup played a key role in the design team that produced the €320 million Donbass Arena, which became the first new FIFA compliant football stadium built in a former Soviet country when it opened in August 2009.
According to Burkhard Miehe, the Arup lead structural engineer responsible for the design of the stadium bowl, “Donbass set the standard fo... More
Project • By gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects • Stadiums
Olympic Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine
On the occasion of the UEFA European Football Championships in 2012, which Ukraine is staging jointly with Poland, the rebuilding of the Olympic Stadium for the final game has been realized.
The new design for the reconstruction of the stadium respects the historic fabric with its important filigree prestressed concrete upper tier built in 1968, the frame of the new roof structure being detached and placed clear of the existing bowl. This most distinctive feature is therefore being encased in a new filigree glass façade and will be duly illuminated with appropriate lighting. The plinth structure of 1948 arising from the location of the stadium on a slope at the West End also was rebuilt in a different guise during reconstruction. The ge... More