How Barcelona ripped down the Nou Camp: Stunning timelapse video shows how one of the world’s most iconic football stadiums became a stripped-out building site

• Work began in June and most of the stadium has already been demolished 
• Barca currently playing their home games at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys 
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Barcelona have posted a stunning timelapse video showing how the Nou Camp has become a stripped-out building site during the £1billion redevelopment of one of the world’s most iconic football stadiums.

Building work started in June, with the £1billion project expected to be completed in time for the start of the 2025/26 campaign.

Most of the stadium has already been demolished, and work continues on the removal of the grandstand. 

The Catalan giants have already unveiled CGI plans of how the Nou Camp will eventually look, with plans to expand the seating to 105,000 while adding a roof.

Barca are currently playing their home games at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, located in the Montjuic part of the city.

The upper-tier of the iconic stadium has been torn down to make way for a new structure

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The old Nou Camp had an upper-tier wrapped around only 50 per cent of the stadium, tapering off after reaching the halfway point of the shorter edges of the ovular ground.

In order to reconstruct a full tier, the seats and framework for this existing structure have already been removed, paving the way for a full stand stretching across the full circumference of the new ground. 

The existing small roof on the opposite side of the ground will also be taken down, to allow for the massive upper section to be built, creating a bowl-like structure. 

With the ground then looking like an ancient Roman Colosseum, a domed roof will be built on top with an aperture in the middle leaving approximately the centre third of the pitch open to the elements. 

It is not the just the stadium itself, though, that is being revamped, with the grounds at the site also being done up. 

The existing area will also make way, with a newer, modern concourse outside the ground wrapped around the perimeter in a complete remodelling of the entrance to the stadium. 

The final product looks set to create a fearsome environment for visiting fans to the Nou Camp. 

With the stands flaring outwards away from the ground before being capped with the new roof, the noise will surely be deafening, and a febrile and closely-packed atmosphere will likely be common-place.  

Catalan giants released a computer-generated video of the stadium reconstruction plans

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