The Spanish club Atlético de Madrid new home, which was opened in 2017 and will host the next UEFA Champions League final, got an award for the Best Stadium in the World during the World Football Summit 2018.
The Wanda Metropolitano, designed by the Spanish office Cruz y Ortiz Architects, has received many awards and distinctions in its first year. Some of these are hosting the next UEFA Champions League final in 2019 and the Best Sports Stadium in the World Award from the WFS Industry Awards. This one was awarded in the renowned World Football Summit held in Madrid last September. The Atletico’s stadium became first in its category over great sports centers in the United States as Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta and Century Link Field in Seattle.

 Among the considerations that have led the jury to award this prize are its remarkable design, the operation during match days, its ability to hold other major events, as well as the high technological development of this facility, and above all, a unique experience for the spectator in terms of comfort, services and safety.

The Wanda, officially opened on the 16th of September of 2017, is at the forefront of technology among stadiums around the world, and continues to accumulate awards and recognitions inside and outside the world of football.

 It is not the first time that a building by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos receives a worldwide or european award. In 2015, the European Museums Forum recognized the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as the “Best Museum in Europe”.

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Architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz started their professional careers in 1971, after graduating from Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid. In addition to the transformation of the Rijksmuseum, their most well-known projects include the new Atletico de Madrid Stadium, which will also be the new Olympic Stadium if the Madrid 2020 Olympic bid is successful (due for completion in 2016); the Spanish Pavilion at the Hannover 2000 Expo; the Cartuja Stadium in Seville (1999); the extension to the SBB Railway Station in Basel, Switzerland (2003); Seville Public Library (1999); the Stadium of the Community of Madrid(2012); the Huelva Bus Station (1994); Santa Justa Railway Station in Seville (1991); and a housing project on Dona Maria Coronel Street, Seville (1976).

In 2002 Cruz y Ortiz opened a studio in Amsterdam, and the firm's other Dutch projects include the Atelier Building (Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam, 2007), residences Patio Sevilla (Ceramique - Maastricht, 2000) and Java-eiland (Amsterdam, 1994).

Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have been visiting professors at the Lausanne and Zurich polytechnics as well as at Cornell and Columbia universities and at the Escuela de Arquitectura de Pamplona. They have held the Kenzo Tange Professorship at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and since 2004 have been honorary professors at the Universidad de Sevilla and occupied the Catedra Blanca at the Escuela de Arquitectura. Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have received, among others, the Premio Nacional de Arquitectura Espanola, the Premio Ciudad de Sevilla, the Premio Ciudad de Madrid, the Brunei 92 International Award, the Premio Construmat and the Premio de la Fundacion C.E.O.E. On two occasions, they have been runners-up for the Mies van der Rohe Award. In 1997 they were awarded the Gold Medal of Andalusia for their work in the field of architecture, and in 2008 they obtained the Premio Andalucia de Arquitectura for the Basel Railway Station extension.

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Published on: December 29, 2018
Cite: "Best Stadium of the World: The ‘Wanda Metropolitano’ by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/best-stadium-world-wanda-metropolitano-cruz-y-ortiz-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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