The first time I went to the Camp Nou I fell on my back. The field and its grounds seemed vast to me. The lines they draw Francesc Mitjans they are perfect. The gravel surrounding the lawn looked like Versailles and the green wooden markers gave an incredible beauty to the context. The stands, the sidelines, the spotlights, the candy bars before games…
The expansion of the third tier, already in the time of President José Luis Núñez, in 1981, and on the occasion of the World Cup in Spain, is quite rustic with an imperfect finish. Pure cement. The magic is broken.
I was born the year the stadium opened, in 1957, and the stadium has always been of total importance to me when examining the club’s history. And I was very disappointed then Sandro Rossell decided to stop the project commissioned by Joan Laporta from Norman Foster. I liked the one covered in colored scales.
Rosell had in mind the construction of a new stadium in what is now the University Zone, where the future Clinical Hospital would be located. But the board chose to rebuild the Camp Nou. When Rosell left the presidency, Joseph Maria Bartomeu launched a remodeling project. History tells us that there was a referendum in which Espai Barça was overwhelmingly accepted. This was in 2015, and here we are, without starting the works seven years later.
Best of all on this last trip was the news that the best architecture firm in the world, Nikken Sekkei, Now Nikken, plain and simple, will be in charge of the project. The Japanese imagined a stadium flooded with natural light, sustainable and Mediterranean. The beauty.
now, report strike back at the board of directors Rosell/Bartomeu and decided not to renew commitments to nikken and deliver the work to a company that is a specialist in the construction of industrial buildings. Torrella Engineering, as it is called, has its headquarters at Calle d’Ireneu, 8, in Terrassa. We moved from one giant and world-renowned company to another with offices of a few square meters and had to outsource work and facilitate commissions.
The decision does not deserve too much confidence. change to nikken no lights or stenographer looks like a mistake. I can’t imagine what they must be thinking in Tokyo with all this wandering around…
The Espai Barça project by Nikken is a work of art, and for this reason it is not surprising that the College of Architects of Catalonia expressed concern about the exclusion of the authors of a project that affected the legend of Barcelona as city of architects. Barça’s ‘grandeur’ is a whole range of things, and the Camp Nou deserves more attention than it has had since Francisco Miró-Sans and Mitjans envisioned the best stadium in the world. Camp Nou, poor, deserves wider views
Source: La Verdad
I am Ida Scott, a journalist and content author with a passion for uncovering the truth. I have been writing professionally for Today Times Live since 2020 and specialize in political news. My career began when I was just 17; I had already developed a knack for research and an eye for detail which made me stand out from my peers.
