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I have no problem with the pitch being at street level, and I don't even mind a tall stadium. It's a stadium, it's meant to be big. What I wonder about is why there is any need to further increase the stadium's height, seemingly even without some kind of retractable roof construction, by means of all the stuff on top.
Oliver Schick
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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..