Ireland’s best-loved sports ground, Lansdowne Road, is set for a transformation, as these images produced by HOK Sport reveal. The 50,000-seat stadium has four seating tiers on three sides with unobstructed views of the pitch.


Lansdowne Road
Lansdowne Road

The “shimmering form” around the stadium slopes down in the north to allow spectators to see the city of Dublin from the stands. Rod Sheard, the head of HOK sport, said the stadium would be acknowledged internationally as the home of Irish football and rugby. He said: “The new Lansdowne Road is a design for the 21st century, symbolising the positive future for sport in Ireland. It will be a sporting and entertainment venue that provides facilities and comfort levels comparable to the best. The stadium has been designed to be distinctive and complement its setting in the heart of the city.”