{"id":273933,"date":"2025-11-20T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273933\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:11:09","slug":"birmingham-city-unveil-new-stadium-with-enormous-chimneys-dubbed-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273933\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City unveil new stadium with enormous chimneys dubbed ‘Powerhouse’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knighthead chief Tom Wagner unveiled the design for Birmingham City’s proposed new stadium at an event in Digbeth on Thursday<\/p>\n

15:43, 20 Nov 2025Updated 16:04, 20 Nov 2025<\/p>\n

\"TheThe design of Birmingham City’s new stadium ‘Powerhouse’ <\/p>\n

Birmingham City have revealed the design for a 62,000-seater stadium that will be the centrepiece of the Sports Quarter and it will be called ‘The Powerhouse’.<\/p>\n

The stadium design was unveiled at Digbeth Loc. Studios on Thursday afternoon<\/a> by Blues chairman Tom Wagner, Bluenose and film director Steven Knight and Heatherwick Studios architect Eliot Postma.<\/p>\n

Knight prepared a film for guests to reveal the stadium that included cameos from minority investor Tom Brady, Real Madrid and England superstar Jude Bellingham and Peaky Blinders<\/a> actor Paul Anderson.<\/p>\n

The design, which is a collaboration between architects from Heatherwick Studios and US-based MANICA with assistance from Knight on a consultancy basis, features chimneys – 12 to be exact – all around the outside of a modern centre that brings Birmingham’s history to the 21st century.<\/p>\n

There were gasps in the crowd as the stadium was unveiled before a rendition of Keep Right On was played around the room.<\/p>\n

Wagner<\/a> has set the ambitious target of building the stadium by 2030 and the next stage is to get planning permission for a complex that is expected to be around 135 acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knighthead chief Tom Wagner unveiled the design for Birmingham City’s proposed new stadium at an event in Digbeth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11538,218,112524,101,112523,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-273933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-birmingham-city-fc","tag-football","tag-knighthead-capital-management","tag-sports","tag-tom-wagner","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}