Mound Stand, Lord's Cricket Ground
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The new stand curves around the ground
Dave Bower Download Original
Restoration, remodeling and extension of existing tiers and arcade incorporating new members area, private boxes, service spaces and roof top terrace restaurant
The brick arcade of the original 19th century Mound Stand was retained and extended, making the underside an attractive and usable public concourse. The seating tiers on the mound were renewed.
A new steel superstructure is supported on six columns to minimise disruption to views. The columns are linked by a plate girder, from which lattice trusses cantilever out forming the skeleton of a three-storey structure, which hovers over the mound below.
Private boxes and dining rooms hang below the skeleton, while service rooms occupy the space between the ribs. A tier of raked seating backed by open-air restaurants and bars sits on top.
The six columns continue up to become masts supporting a canopy of PVC-coated, polyester fabric. The whole structure is held back by tension members anchored to the ground and strapped to the brick piers below to stiffen them.
As cricket is played only in the summer, the building is unheated and uninsulated. The finishes are simple and unadorned. The private boxes have folding, frameless glass doors opening onto a raking balcony facing the wicket, with party walls of fairfaced concrete blockwork and rear walls, onto the corridor, of glass blocks in full-height panels.
Data
- Begun: Sep 1985
- Completed: Jun 1987
- Floor area: 5,505m2
- Total cost: £4.5M
- Procurement: Management Fee
- Address: Marylebone Cricket Club, Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood, London, NW8 8QN, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Hopkins Architects
- Project architects: Bill Taylor, John Pringle
- Client: Marylebone Cricket Club
- Project manager: Rob Kinch
- Fire engineer: Margaret Law
- Quantity surveyor: Davis
- Quantity surveyor: Belfield & Everest
- Consultant engineer: Arup
- Structural engineer: Arup
Suppliers
- Steel supplier: Mannesmann GmbH
- Steel supplier: British Steel Corportaion
- Membrane roof: Koitwerk Herbert Koch GmbH & Co
- Roof membrane supplier: Julius Heywinkel GmbH
- Roof cables supplier: Pfeifer Seil und Hebetechnik
- Precast concrete floor system: Weaver Concrete