Camp Nou

Loki said:

The interior of the stadium is completed since half a year, the access points to Gol Nord are also ready since 1 month. The stadium had zero problems to handle the attendance since the opening.
It's just bullying from the Asspanyol Mayor at this point.

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It's political, particularly when this much money is involved - greed and corruption

FCBarca said:

It's political, particularly when this much money is involved - greed and corruption

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Absolute lies as usual.. there is not anyone at head of council who makes the decisions on the licenses and no one who is ignoring the reports of those assesing the facilities.. the police, fire dept etc.

Usual moronic nonsense as excuse as to why not ready.

malvolio said:

Can't lie, the stadium renovation is the most underwhelming thing about the club right now. 1.5B and it looks like the old Camp Nou. Would have been better off to build a new stadium with a new design.

Maybe I'll be surprised once I visit, but I don't see anything exciting about it as per online videos/tv.

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live image of malvolio at Camp Nou when Barca win

The old Camp Nou was the sexiest stadium before and will be after renovation. What kind of logic is that. Why change something timeless? People still wear a tux at the most important high status events like in the 20s, 100 years later. Some things don't change.

Judging from the models, the finished thing will be a rather generic modern stadium. Obviously partial to the old design, which did have a lot of distinguishing character. But can't be too bothered.

FCBarca said:

It's political, particularly when this much money is involved - greed and corruption

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Yep. Also as a revenge on Laporta for not picking a catalan company. A 1.5b multi year contract that provides thousands of jobs comes not every day around the corner, but it's not Laporta's fault if no domestic company wanted to agree to Barca's terms.

The new interior resembles the old Camp Nou to the extent that first tier wasn't demolished. Everything else feels different. VIP boxes, the third tier higher. The current design could be considered homage to the original of 1957 with three stands. My guess the club couldn't afford to demolish the roof and they built around it ever since. It's visible that prior to the 1982 World Cup a fourth and fifth tiers were completed.

The exterior is completely different.
1957

1982

1999

2026 (couldn't find a panorama or overshot to give the perspective)

The case is pretty simple:

The club had to modernize the Camp Nou and introduce VIP rings in a way that was affordable. They couldn't rebuilt the entire stadium, as it would have cost around 2-3 billion and forced the team to play 3 years at the Montjuic at the very least. But thanks to the unique structure of the Camp Nou, where the third stand was later added to the original 1957 stadium, they could demolish and rebuilt it to get exactly what they were looking for:

- VIP rings
- A symmetrical third stand to have a roof
- A new design from outside
- much bigger space for parking, stores and other activities

The interior stands couldn't have been designed differently, since they can't overhang the VIP rings and they also had to built them one above the other, as they couldn't put one ring between the first and the second stand. So yeah, with all that in mind, that's the only possible and affordable interior design. And the look will be completely different and menacing for all away teams, once the roof is up.

The increased capacity comes from the second stand balcony being made longer and of course the symmetrical third stand. But then my guess, 5-10k capacity is lost due to the VIP boxes. I also think the upper stands feel more vertical and closer to the pitch.

Yep, agree with all...just hate the premier grada distance from pitch and raised level

Hurts my eyes and I can't unsee it

Doesn't feel different to me. Same stadium basically revamped and with new structure + roof. The vip rings changed a bit the positioning of the 3rd tier, but that was inevitable.

That double led add board that made the lateral stand taller and farther away from the pitch is the only thing I hate about the new stadium.

On the plus side, the ceramic blades will be stunning, worried they would look a bit cheap, but far from it. Looks classy.