The Allianz Arena stadium, completed in 2004, hosted World Cup matches in Germany 2006 and became an icon of world architecture . With its unusual external and chameleonic appearance, its façade can change colors according team there, red, blue or white . With a capacity of 66 thousand people, the stadium is shared by two teams: FC Bayern München and TSV 1860 München.
The Allianz Arena was born in the creative minds of two Swiss architects: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. The duo of the HDM office, based in Basel, Switzerland, faced a great challenge and conceived an architectural miracle. The HDM had already designed a smaller stadium in Basel, the Saint Jacob; But it was a second division stadium, which served as experience, but nothing compared to the challenge of designing an ultramodern stadium for the World Cup. It is difficult to find defects in the Allianz, which according to the authors’ own statement “was perfect.”
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