SPORTS STADIUM ARCHITECTURAL MODELS
The best sports grounds are not just venues — they are buildings, with architectural histories as rich as any civic structure. The five pieces in this collection were chosen because each one rewards attention as architecture, not only as sport.
Arsenal's East Stand at Highbury, designed by Claude Waterlow Ferrier and completed in 1936, is one of the finest examples of Art Deco design applied to a sports building anywhere in the world — Grade II listed, and one of the few parts of the old ground to survive the development of the Emirates era. Craven Cottage's riverside facade, overlooking the Thames at Fulham, is among the most distinctive in English football. Across the Atlantic, Fenway Park in Boston (1912) and the original Yankee Stadium in the Bronx (1923) are architectural landmarks in their own right — places where the building is as much part of the identity as the team.
The Shankly Gates at Anfield stand slightly apart from the others: not a building facade but a pair of ceremonial iron gates bearing the words You'll Never Walk Alone, commissioned as a memorial to Bill Shankly after his death in 1981. For Liverpool supporters, they are among the most meaningful objects in football.
Each model is cast in fine plaster and finished by hand in our West Sussex studio.
