Radical ideas for getting fans back into sports stadiums

By Neil MacOmish 2020-09-16T05:00:00

Source: Sketches by Alistair Brierley and Samuel Utting, courtesy of Scott Brownrigg

Scott Brownrigg’s Neil MacOmish dreams of ways we can watch live sports in venues once again

News has just broken regarding the change in lockdown restrictions in England, limiting social and leisure contact to bubbles of six people, either inside or outside. The statement says that is not applicable to ‘organised sports’, but is unclear on whether this is for spectators or participants. Many questions remain.

These changes may, on the face of it reverse recent aspirations on trying to return crowds to stadiums. Here lies one of the problems for designers and managers of stadiums now or in the future: understanding that while the current pandemic, being the most serious in 100 years, is very unlikely to be the last. How does architecture and the built environment respond so quickly to such rapid change?

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