Armadillo creators to design river-front arena

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / April 29

The firm of architects which designed the Armadillo at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre was appointed yesterday to create a Ł50m national arena on the same river-front site. Foster & Partners, headed by Lord Foster, which has an impressive portfolio of projects including the so-called Gherkin in London and the German parliament, the Reichstag, in Berlin, has been appointed design team leader of the ambitious 12,500-seat arena project on the north bank of the Clyde in Glasgow. Developers have estimated that the project will put Ł21m a year into the local economy, sustaining 806 jobs, adding to the Ł92m and 3500 jobs generated by the SECC at present.

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