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ALPINE to build Poland's 2012 European Football Championship stadiums

21/04/2009

ALPINE to build Poland's 2012 European Football Championship stadiums

The Baltic Arena in Gdansk (44,000 seats) and Poznan Stadium in Posen (47,000 seats).

 

ALPINE to build Poland's 2012 European Football Championship stadiums

ALPINE, working in the joint venture format, will be in charge of building the Baltic Arena in Gdansk and improving and enlarging the stadium in Posen.


The first job, the Baltic Arena, is worth 95.5 million euro and must be finished in twenty months. The stadium will be raised on a 39-hectare plot in the vicinity of the city centre. It will seat 44,000 people and have 6,500 parking spaces. Its design, by RKW Rhode kellermann Architektur+Städtebau, is reminiscent of Gdansk's typical boats. The stadium will have a translucent, airy look achieved using girders and a module that becomes more and more transparent as it rises.


Posen Stadium, designed by Sportfive in cooperation with architect Wojciech Ryżyński, will be rebuilt and enlarged for 89 million euro in a 17-month completion period. At the completion of the work, which will include the construction of two new stands and a new roof, the venue will have seating for 47,000 in addition to 1,600 visitor parking spaces.


ALPINE has also been found best bidder in the tender to build Warsaw National Stadium for 295 million euro in a 24-month completion period. Designed by the J.S.K. architectural firm, the new 55,000-seat national stadium will have an impressive steel cable lattice structure that will give it a stunning look.


ALPINE built the Allianz Arena in Munich, headquarters of the official inauguration of the 2006 Germany FIFA World Cup and one of the most spectacular stadiums in Germany, and the company has recently finished Dubai Cricket Stadium, the biggest athletic complex in the world. For the 2008 European Football Championship, it built Austria's Wörthersee Stadium (which won the southern Austrian state of Carinthia's construction award in recognition of the implementation of the architectural design) and Tivoli Stadium and it enlarged Wals-Siezenheim Stadium in Salzburg.


For its part, FCC, amongst other projects, has remodelled and enlarged Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and Vicente Calderón Stadium (both in Madrid) and the Nou Camp facilities in Barcelona, and it has built El Sardinero football pitch in Santander, Barcelona's Joan Camper Sport City complex, the new Real Madrid athletic complex in Valdebebas and Español's new pitch in Cornellá. In 2007 it won the contract to build the Valencia Club de Fútbol's new stadium.

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