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SCOTLAND DREAMS.


A new stand completes the Scottish national football stadium to modern comfort and safety standards Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory.  and makes it an international centre.

Hampden is Scotland's national soccer stadium which has been redeveloped for the Millennium so that it can accommodate 52 000 fans under cover. The new work is in the south and west stands, where a 40m wide cantilevered roof has been created that connects to the existing ones, so covering a continuous symmetrical symmetrical

equally on both sides.


symmetrical multifocal encephalopathy
inherited disease in two forms: Limousin form appears at about a month old with blindness, forelimb hypermetria, hyperesthesia, nystagmus, aggression, weight
 oval which rises toward the south to allow the new stand to be seven storeys high.

The original stands were partly cut into the slope, but on the south side, the full seven-storey height is revealed as a semi-independent building. Here is the nucleus of the complex. The main entrance is on the third floor, approached by grand stairs up from the car park (though there is another way of entering at level two, where escalators carry spectators to the upper of the two tiers of seating, which together provide seats for 17 500 people). The entrance is heraldically he·ral·dic  
adj.
Of or relating to heralds or heraldry.



he·raldi·cal·ly adv.
 framed by the stubby stub·by  
adj. stub·bi·er, stub·bi·est
1.
a. Having the nature of or suggesting a stub, as in shortness, broadness, or thickness: stubby fingers and toes.

b.
 rounded shapes of the vomitoria, clad in dark blue metal over red brick plinths.

A road runs through the bowels of the building at pitch level to deliver teams and VIPs to a special entrance. On the floor above is the Scottish Football Museum The Scottish Football Museum is the Scottish Football Association's National Museum of football, located in Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland. The Museum
The museum houses over 2000 objects of football memorabilia, including the world's oldest cap and match ticket, from
, and then above that the foyer, media centre and spectator Spectator, English daily periodical published jointly by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele with occasional contributions from other writers. It succeeded the Tatler, a periodical begun by Steele on Apr. 12, 1709, under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff.  concourses for the lower tier. Level four has a band of boxes and VIP lounges between the two tiers of seating. The fifth level has more hospitality spaces and the spectator concourse of the upper tier. Above are two levels of offices for Scottish football organizations. These, and the museum will be fitted out later this year, when 'Scotland's Field of Dreams' will be complete.
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Publication:The Architectural Review
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUS
Date:Apr 1, 2000
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