In an exclusive interview with Mark Douglas, Populous managing director Christopher Lee reveals his grand plans for St James' Park
Andre Onana set to miss up to seven Man Utd games after opting to play in AfconIn an exclusive interview with Mark Douglas, Populous managing director Christopher Lee reveals his grand plans for St James’ ParkThe Magpies have sold out every home game this season and are in the middle of a wide-ranging feasibility study about what they can do to expand and develop their iconic stadium,understands they are keen to increase capacity above 60,000 while also developing corporate and conference...
The most obvious question, which has vexed not only the current owners but also previous custodians who looked into stadium expansion, is how could you do it? “So what we did there was we mapped in three dimensions, we call it building information models where you get all this information into a report. You then end up with an envelope within which you can then design.
With little scope to build out, Lee’s answer to the dilemma is to expand both the East Stand and Gallowgate End vertically. It would potentially give the stadium, he says, a unique look.“You’ve only got the Gallowgate and the East Stand to really expand at the current site and they would be pretty vertical which is not a bad thing,” he says.
Lee is fascinating to listen to on how attitudes towards stadiums and live venues has changed in the last couple of decades. He says they are now almost like “town halls”, where people go to meet, socialise and even work through the week. “I think generally people want the buildings in their neighbourhoods, and yes that does make it much more complex. It makes us architects work that bit harder rather than having clean, flat sites. But as an architect I find these more complicated jobs much more challenging but much more interesting because of it.”
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