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Main Stadium for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia / Erick van Egeraat

Today FIFA announced that the 2018 World Cup will be held in Russia and the main stadium has been designed by Erick van Egeraat. Egeraat and Russian partner Mikhail Posokhin, architects of Moscow’s new VTB Arena are thrilled to hear of this decision. “What wonderful news! What a start for this new Russian masterpiece to be the center of the 2018 FIFA World Cup™!”, says architect-director Erick van Egeraat when presented with this latest news. “The VTB arena will be more than a soccer-arena; the multitude of functions will ensure enjoyment for its visitors for decades!” With a 300,000-m2 development surface the VTB Arena Park is one of the largest projects that will be developed in the Russian Federation in the coming years.

VTB Arena Park comprises the redevelopment of the Dynamo Moscow stadium and an articulation of the surrounding park. In contradiction with mono – functional sports arena’s Erick van Egeraat designs multifunctional urban regenerator,that will play a key role in transforming its wider surroundings. Erick van Egeraat’s 300,000-m2 multifunctional culture, health and sports centre will be developed on a 116,000-m2 site and will comprise a 45,000-seat Stadium Arena for Dynamo Moscow, a 10,000-seat Arena Hall, a Retail and Entertainment complex, restaurants, parking and other facilities. This careful mix of functions will ensure a self sustaining character.

“This challenging site embodies a great Russian tradition which we must honour. We have proposed a design that embraces the history and context of the Dynamo stadium and the Petrovski Park and creates a contemporary icon of the 21st century of which the people of Moscow can be proud. A project that will provide diversity to the area and reinforce its identity.”, says Erick van Egeraat. “Since its start in 1930 the FIFA World Cup™ will be held for the first time on Russian Federation soil. This opportunity can be regarded as a great venue for the growth of the nation and will further strengthen the confidence of the Russian people.”

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Dinamo design approved - and immediately changed by Moscow mayor

by Andy Potts at 29/06/2010 12:43

A new vision for the Dinamo stadium has been unveiled – and will immediately need to be altered.

With a soaring glass dome enclosing football, hockey and basketball arenas the Dutch architect leading the project has transformed the original plans for Dinamo’s historic home.

But that same dome ran into trouble with city planning chiefs, who have asked for it to be chopped down to size.

The design was officially revealed on Monday when Mosproyekt-2’s scheme, designed by Erick von Egeraat, was given the green light by the city authorities.

It was the preferred choice from an international field of five proposals for the site of Moscow’s oldest purpose-built sports venue.

But mayor Yury Luzhkov warned that the plan as it stands is too tall for the surroundings and needs to be truncated in order to blend in with the nieghbouring 18th-century park and palace.

‘It will take time and work’

“At the design stage we did not try to reduce the height,” von Egeraat said at a press conference after the annoucement. “The main thing was to meet the requirements for designing a single complex with a football arena, a universal gym and a commercial component with an attractive appearance.

“Our project proves that all this is quite possible, but we never touched the park and preserved the historic buildings in the stadium.

“Now the jury has set us a new target to reduce the height and retain functionality. It is possible but it will take time and work.”

Starting this summer

The stadium last saw sporting action in Nov. 2008 when Dinamo signed off with a 2-0 home win over Tomsk in front of 15,000 fans.

Since then there has been little sign of progress, with the team decamping to Arena Khimki and struggling to coax fans to follow them up Leningradka.

But club chairman Andrei Peregudov told journalists work would definitely start this summer with the demolition of the current stadium and the preservation of its historic outer wall.

Fellow architect Mikhail Posokhin, of Mosproyekt, explained that the outer wall would be retained as a feature of the new design, unlike the Moskva hotel where the historic exterior was demolished and built anew.

World Cup hopes

The Dinamo stadium could form part of Russia’s bid to host the 2018 football World Cup, along with the stadiums currently being developed by city rivals Spartak and CSKA.

Although Spartak’s new home at Tushkinskaya has recently seen construction restart after a long hiatus, the CSKA arena has been held up by disputes over land ownership.

Dinamo will hope for no further delays as they bid to upgrade their crumbling home into a 21st-century sporting facility.

The completed arena could also bring together several strands of the Dinamo sporting brand on a single site. At present the hockey team is playing at Luzhniki, while the basketball team is based at a purpose-built complex in remote Krylatskoye.

And at a time when Russian hockey is urging teams to invest in better-quality rinks, moving the newly-formed Dinamo-MVD hybrid club to a purpose-built home would raise the game’s flagging profile in the capital.

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