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ON SITE: Works have begun installing almost 100 white concrete columns of the new Aarhus Stadium in Denmark.

Cast in the nearby city of Skive and transported to Aarhus at night, these beautiful 20-metre sculptural columns form the stadium’s primary structure and will also define the sheltered public colonnade surrounding the new stadium.

The team comprising Zaha Hadid Architects working with architecture and engineering consultancy Sweco Denmark and landscape architects Tredje Natur awarded the commission to build the new Aarhus football stadium in December 2022 following the international design competition.

Bringing supporters as close as possible to the field of play in a single-tiered seating bowl creating an intense match-day atmosphere, the new Aarhus Stadium is embedded within the city’s Marselisborg forest.

Informed by the vertical rhythm of the surrounding trees, the design is an extension of the forest with its verticality continued in the stadium’s public colonnades and the timber ribs of its façade.

Defining sheltered public circulation routes independent from the events within the stadium, the design creates welcoming new public spaces for the local community.

Built on the site of the existing stadium, the new project applies the right materials for the right function, and reduces their quantities to the absolute minimum where strength and robustness add the greatest possible value.

Home ground to Danish Superliga club AGF Aarhus, the current stadium opened in 1920 and no longer meets the standards required to host regular top-flight professional and international football matches as well as large-scale cultural events.