Nou Mestalla

Nou Mestalla

Model of Nou Mestalla
Coordinates 39°29′22″N 0°23′47″W / 39.48944°N 0.39639°WCoordinates: 39°29′22″N 0°23′47″W / 39.48944°N 0.39639°W
Owner Valencia CF
Operator Valencia CF
Capacity 61,500
Field size 105 × 68
Surface Grass
Construction
Broke ground 1 August 2007
Construction cost 250–300 million €
Architect RFA Fenwick Iribarren Architects
ArupSport
Structural engineer Arup
Services engineer GI Grup
Tenants
Valencia CF

Nou Mestalla (Valencian pronunciation: [ˈnɔw mesˈtaʎa]) is a partially built 61,500-seat football stadium in Valencia, Spain, intended as a replacement for Valencia CF's current stadium, Estadio Mestalla. The basic concrete structure of the stadium was built between August 2007 and February 2009, but work was then halted for financial reasons.

The stadium architects are Reid Fenwick Asociados and ArupSport, and the cost is estimated between 250 and 300 million euros. The design features a futuristic exterior, clad in aluminium and an interior of wood. It is being built on the site of a former factory in the neighbourhood of Benicalap.

History

The plans for the new stadium were unveiled on 10 November 2006, by former president Juan Soler and the club who unveiled details about the stadium and presented a short film about the stadium at the Museu Príncipe Felipe in Valencia. The work on Nou Mestalla began in August 2007. It was due to be completed in the early summer 2009 in time for the 2009–10 season, but due to financial problems this date was never met.

On 12 December 2011, the club announced that it had negotiated a deal with Bankia to complete the stadium and transfer the old Mestalla property to the bank, and that it expected to complete the stadium in approximately two years, but this deal later collapsed.[1][2]

On 13 November 2013, Valencia announced an updated redesign by Fenwick Iribarren Architects. The new design reduced the capacity to 61,500. It also reduced the underground car park and downsized the original design's full roof and elaborate façade. There were also redesigns of the interior decoration. No date was given for when construction would restart.[3][4][5]

Accident

On 26 May 2008, four construction workers lost their lives following the collapse of some scaffolding on the Nou Mestalla site. At midday on 28 May, trades union UGT and CC.OO. called a five-minute silence for the tragedy, which was observed throughout the Valencian Community in all sectors of industry.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Nou Mestalla not likely to open until 2012/2013 season". April 29, 2010. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
  2. ↑ http://www.superdeporte.es/valencia/2011/12/12/acuerdo-bankia-acabar-estadio/147449.html
  3. ↑ "Valencia: New plan to deliver Nou Mestalla, smaller and cheaper". Stadium db. Nov 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
  4. ↑ "Valencia unveil new-look, cost-cutting Nou Mestalla". Inside Spanish Football. 14 November 2012. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
  5. ↑ "Introducing the new 'bare bones' Mestalla". Marca. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
  6. ↑ "Concentración silenciosa por los obreros fallecidos". El País. 28 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-28.

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