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Staying: Media Centre, Lord's.
Picture: David Hares |
Lord’s all out for new-look ground
AN ambitious £400million revamp of Lord’s Cricket Ground has been unveiled.
Marylebone Cricket Club hopes to transform the 195-year-old “home of cricket” into a stadium fit for the 21st century.
Its Vision for Lord’s design by architects Herzog & de Meuron would be part-funded by the sale of Victorian flats behind the famous pavilion.
Five of the existing stands will be demolished – but the Mound Stand and Grand Stand, the media centre and the Great Gates will stay intact.
The project aims to increase seating from 29,493 to 36,990 in an all-year-round venue.
A Lord’s spokesman said: “We need to improve the ‘Lord’s experience’ and provide better facilities, shops, cafés, restaurants. We also want to develop the indoor school into an international cricket laboratory with a sports injury clinic and treatment rooms, plus analysis suite and gymnasium. We have set up a world cricket committee to advise on this and ensure it is a truly world class facility that reflects Lord’s place as the ‘think tank’ as well as the home for cricket.”
The plans must be approved by MCC members before being submitted to Westminster City Council. |
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