They moved a football pitch underground WHILE playing matches. Engineering gone absolutely feral.
Real Madrid, the football club with the most Champions League titles, is undertaking a unique renovation of its stadium. The new Santiago Bernabéu will have a metallic facade, retractable roof, 360º video scoreboard, and a logistics ring. It will be the first stadium to store the pitch underground with a revolutionary system, all while continuing to host matches, pushing engineering to the limit.
Production
The underground pitch storage system is genuinely bonkers.
Direction
Serra Mateu makes construction footage weirdly cinematic.
Director
Josep Serra Mateu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The new Bernabéu's metallic facade is designed to change appearance with light and weather, making it essentially a giant mood ring for Madrid's ego.
This renovation happened during COVID and a financial crisis, proving that Real Madrid's infrastructure budget operates in a parallel economic universe where 'austerity' is just a word other people use.
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