Projects
- Berkshire, UK
- Completion: 2007
- Capacity: 80,000
The new Ascot Racecourse embodies the essential requisites for a satisfying racegoer experience - attractive, stylish, tasteful, cleverly simple and clear.
The new 30,000 seat Grandstand is perched on the brow of a hill with panoramic views of the course to the north and Windsor Great Park beyond. The 480 metre Grandstand takes the form of a shallow-arched hyperbolic paraboloid, conceptualised as 'a building between trees'. Running the length of the building is the internal galleria, which acts as an 'environmental lung' for the grandstand, bringing natural light into the covered concourse. Sailing over the whole are the dramatic form and lines of the roof's light, sweeping canopy.