The club were renovating their modest home when local businessman George Reynolds swooped and turned Darlo into his personal vanity project. With cheap land at a premium, a potential site was identified in Falmer, beyond the city limits. Sections of retractable seating, connected to the main stands by awkward gangways, do nothing to help an atmosphere that switches between forlorn and febrile. KCom Stadium, Hull CityOpened: 2002 | Capacity: 25,400Hull City AFC were born in 1904 but took almost a century to find a suitable home. Herzog & De Meuron, the architects behind the Birds Nest and Allianz Arena, were commissioned for the staggeringly ambitious project, which was expected to cost 600m.
They were not commissioned for the sports project.
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