Studio Populous will make the restyling of the Stade de la Meinau

Kansas City's architectural studio Populous, will take care of the restyling of the Stade de la Meinau, the Racing Strasbourg F.C. stadium. The sport facility of the French team is very old, and Populous, who has become very popular in Italy to be a candidate for the new San Siro, wants to make the stadium like those of the top European clubs. And it will do so using sustainable materials and trying to furnish the plant with renewable sources, plus all the latest systems required by the new stadium architectures: services, open space, heating from renewable sources and LED lighting. The work is scheduled to be completed in 2025. 

In France there are already many stadiums that in recent years have been modernized, on all that of Bordeaux, which has become a jewel of French. Strasbourg is a club with limited financial resources and every year, in Ligue 1, it struggles not to be relegated: yet its audience - when it was present - was highly regarded despite the limited capacity of the plant. In fact, one of the objectives that the company has commissioned from Populous is to increase the capacity from 26 thousand to around 32 thousand seats, working, in particular, on the South Stand - the main section of the stadium. This sector will be the one with the most votle modifications to reduce the environmental impact, including the refurbishment of the interior rooms and the exterior façade, so the architects have stated that they use old pieces of an Airbus A340. There will also be more than 1000 square meters of photovoltaic panels and a rainwater recovery system. 

Strasbourg is considerably more famous for the presence of the European Parliament than for the football team, and in fact, the restyling of the Stade de la Meinau is to be read with a view to a period of major renewal for Football French. Ligue 1 clubs are upgrading their facilities (as  the Bordeaux stadium) and the league level, thanks to figures invested by PSG and those of new properties in Lyon and Olympique Marseille, is growing a lot.