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Think they are hampered by the constraints of the site, normally they'd dig down and put the pitch below street level, at Stamford bridge they've got the train lines and bridge beside it, the cemetery and lots of housing, tricky location, and even with abramovich's money they can't really move elsewhere, london pricing and also the supporters trust owning the land (but @WornCleat would know more about this).
think it's in line with herzog's thinking about stadium design, didn't the architects do the new Lyon stadium? Which looks if memory serves vaguely similar..
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The main superstructure doesn't seem to have any non-decorative/architectural 'statement' function, or am I reading the picture wrongly?
It would be a lot better if the height wasn't so much increased by the latticework.
The architect(s) should just accept that the site is irregularly-shaped and stop insisting that they must find a circle somewhere. :)