National Arena Bucharest

The Lia Manoliu Stadium is the largest sports venue in Romania, with a high national identification value. The new structure as a purely football stadium on this tradition-rich spot has seating for 55,000 spectators, fulfilling the requirements of a contemporary sports venue and meeting UEFA recommendations. The new roofed soccer arena takes up the existing structure of the earthen ramp and, together with the reinforced concrete structure of the upper tier and the steel roof structure, creates the structural center of the historic sports park. The broad flights of steps following the relief of the earthen bank guide large crowds of spectators, and enter into a spatial dialogue with the existing park landscape. The permanent roof covering all the seating and the mobile pitch roof displays a wheel-and-spokes design with an outer pressure ring and a pre-stressed cable structure, which follow the elliptical structure of the upper tier.