ZHA’s Eco Park stadium in England is finally moving forward


An all-timber football stadium designed for the Forest Green Rovers Football Club by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) in 2016 has received local approval in Gloucestershire, England. 

The all-wood stadium is designed to blend into the project’s rural site. Rendering courtesy of MIR / Zaha Hadid Architects.

The proposed stadium will anchor the new £100million Eco Park development that will bring the 5,000-seat stadium, a community accessible football pitch, and a collection of offices and retail spaces to the area. The stadium component of the project is billed as the world’s first modern all-wood soccer stadium, while the project backers aim to make the development run entirely on sustainably generated energy.

A project statement on the ZHA website states, “The design retains and enhances the existing meadow landscape of the site whilst adding the stadium and other functions for the town. Embodying low carbon construction methods and operational processes, it will be the first all timber ...

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