Game over for Herzog & de Meuron’s £500m Chelsea stadium

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2020-05-04T11:46:00

Chelsea FC design competition - the gates would go just behind the line of bollards

Planning expires on distinctive gothic stadium design

Herzog & de Meuron’s striking proposal for a £500m gothic-influenced brick stadium at Stamford Bridge are officially dead in the water.

Chelsea FC’s planning permission, which was granted in 2017 and would have expanded capacity from 41,000 to 60,000, expired this spring. The Premier League club had not started work on the redevelopment.

The design by Beijing Bird’s Nest stadium architect Herzog & de Meuron would have been one of the most unusual in the Premiership.

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