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The club has narrowed the designs down to two finalists.
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Two designs "have been selected for a new 5,000 capacity stadium" for National League side Forest Green Rovers in Gloucestershire, according to the BBC. Almost 50 designs from architects in the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany and the U.S. "were submitted as part of a competition." The stadium "is to be the centrepiece" of a £100M ($130M) sports and green technology business park proposal, next to junction 13 of the M5. Zaha Hadid Architects, responsible for the 2012 London Olympic Aquatic Centre, and Glenn Howells Architects, which designed Gloucester Services on the M5, "were selected from nine shortlisted candidate." Forest Green Rovers Chair and Ecotricity Founder Dale Vince said that it had been a "very difficult process" narrowing it down from nine to two. He said, "The diversity and quality of the designs was outstanding" (
BBC, 7/4). STROUD NEWS & JOURNAL reported two other firms, AFL Architects and George King Architects, were "highly commended" on their designs. The competition has been organized "by leading sports procurement consultants FWP" (
STROUD NEWS & JOURNAL, 7/4).