Wembley Stadium
Wembley’s modern stadium is inseparable from the site’s older role as England’s football stage: the original Wembley Stadium stood from 1923 until 2003, and the rebuilt Wembley opened in 2007 on that same ground. England’s FA put the national game at the centre—Wembley Stadium is owned through Wembley National Stadium Ltd, a subsidiary of the Football Association. What you associate with Wembley now is engineered spectacle as much as tradition: the stadium holds 90,000 seats, designed by Populous and Foster and Partners, and crowned by a 134-metre-high Wembley Arch. That arch does structural work too, supporting over 75% of the roof load, while two partially retractable roof sections can open over the east and west ends. The project was built by Multiplex at a cost of £798 million. …
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