Project Description:

Shanghai Stadium, completed in 1997, underwent major renovations to meet FIFA standards. Its seating capacity expanded from 58,000 to 72,000, with added interactive facilities. The steel roof extended 16.5m, and the cantilever span increased to 81.5m, ensuring full stand coverage and enhancing its status as a premier venue.

Judges Comments

To meet FIFA's standards for the inaugural Club World Cup finals, the existing Shanghai stadium underwent major upgrades, increasing seating capacity from 58,000 to 72,000, making it one of the top stadia in the country. This required extending the steel cantilever roof from 65m to 81.5m as well as the addition of extra stands. To achieve the roof extension, and lightweight cable truss system was used to supplement the original steel cantilever structure.

Structural Designer

Arcplus Institute of Shanghai Architectural Design & Research (Co.,Ltd)

Xu Xiaoming, Gao Feng, Zhang Shichang, Shi Weizhou

Location

Shanghai, China