The current Parc des Princes, designed by architect RogerTaillibert, was opened in June 1972 and is a true football/rugby stadium with no track around the pitch.
Taillibert's all-seater design has proven in retrospect to be well ahead of its time, requiring only cosmetic improvements to meet vastly increased comfort and safety regulations through the 1990s and early 2000s.
Having acquired PSG on April 10, 2006, the international real estate investment firm Colony Capital has announced a plan to upgrade the Parc des Princes, including the building of luxury amenities and a capacity expansion to 54,000.
The stadium had been purpose-built for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games, based on a futuristic design by French architect RogerTaillibert (born in 1926), whose only other project at the time, aside from designing a couple of competition swimming pools, was supervising the modernisation of the Parc-des-Princes, Paris' football stadium.
The RIO decided that Taillibert's design was unworkable and chose to leave the roof in place with no further attempt to operate it as a retractable structure.
The final nail was driven in on June 27, 1991, when strong winds created a huge gash in the kevlar, and the roof had to be removed for the remainder of the season.
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