In the morning, Manchester ushered in a rare bright sunshine.

Gao Han sat under the shade of the garden, watching Xiao Gaoshen holding the long chair, staggering and moving away, turning around every two or three steps, grinning at his father, revealing his small mouth with four front teeth, and giggling.

That looks so cute.

Whenever he saw him laughing, Gao Han would not help but wave to him and signal him to walk back to his father to hug him. However, the boy turned his head deliberately and continued to walk forward, until he reached the end of the long chair. Then he slowly moved his steps, turned to the other side, and slowly helped him walk back.

He is only one year old and is not very steady now. He needs someone to hold him or something to support him.

According to the old man at home, this is a smart little devil who knows how to be afraid of falling.

Gao Han always competes on weekdays, and occasionally when he has time to go home, he is busy, so it is difficult to take time to spend time with his son. But it is strange, but Xiao Gaoshen is very close to him and likes to chase him and play with him the most.

This kid is not clingy. Gao Han just needs to sit aside with him. He can play alone for a long time. Occasionally, he will giggle constantly when encountering interesting things, which makes Gao Han a little confused, but he also finds it cute and interesting.

Lin Xia wrote in the living room. She had just established her own company in Beijing and developed her own news application on Apple's iOS platform. Everything is just starting out now.

When Gao Han was busy with competitions, she had to take care of the children and the company's affairs, which was also busy at both ends. Now that Gao Han has started to have a holiday, she can devote herself to the company's affairs and hand over the children to her husband.

Gao Han also supports Lin Xia's entrepreneurial plan very much and has agreed to become the second in-depth columnist to sign in their company, specializing in the field of football, which is also his best area.

"Be careful."

Gao Han saw Xiao Gaoshen walking behind him with a long wooden chair, and then walked back with a smile, as if he was playing hide-and-seek, which was particularly interesting. He quickly spoke out to remind him, for fear that the kid would run away and fall down.

However, it was really strange that Xiao Gaoshen could not walk independently, but as long as he gave him a finger or asked him to hold something, he could walk vigorously and walk very steadily.

Perhaps, this is what is called a sense of security.

"Hey, boy, come here and go." Gao Han shouted at the little Gaoshen opposite him.

But the kid giggled and shook his head, wanting to continue playing.

"I'm going out to play with my mother, are you going?" Gao Han deliberately stood up.

When Xiao Gaoshen, opposite the long wooden chair, heard this, he immediately walked over with the long chair and shouted at dad in a coquettish voice.

Gao Han bent down and hugged his son who was rushing over, and kissed his pink little face vigorously.

"Let's go, go find mom."

The father and son returned home while playing.

After entering the living room, Gao Han put Xiao Gaoshen on the floor. The boy immediately slipped like a loach, climbed on the ground very fast, and rushed into Lin Xia's arms on the sofa.

"You really know how to count the time. I just finished my work, so you just gave up the burden." Lin Xia gave Gao Han a angrily look.

Gao Han pretended to be proud, as if he was saying, "Don't you know that this great immortal can do calculations?"

Lin Xia saw it and burst into laughter.

"By the way, my dad and my mom are asking, when will we go back to Beijing?" Lin Xia asked while intimate with her son.

"In a few days, I'm waiting for news from Madrid."

Two days ago, Manchester City had already started to disband and have had their holidays. All players either participated in national team games, prepared for the World Cup, or started taking vacations. Gao Han himself had been on vacation for two days.

However, it is really uncomfortable to get used to the tense season life and suddenly get idle.

But this kind of comfortable life will not last a few days.

In Madrid, the first edition of the new stadium in Chinatown has been planned and designed in the past few days. Gao Han must go over and take a look, and there are also many things in China, especially the matter of the Beijing Chinatown Youth Training Center. Gao Han must go back and take a look in person, especially the selection of geniuses, which is the top priority and cannot be missed.

This summer, Gao Han took on an extra job, which was to write articles for the Guardian's column.

This is not because Gao Han is greedy for that little money, but because Green Wald has facilitated Lin Xia's company to cooperate with several authoritative media such as the Guardian and the Times in terms of news. Gao Han will definitely be more active in the column. After all, this summer is the World Cup, only once every four years.

According to data given by Green Wald, Gao Han is not only the highest paid columnist in the UK, but also after writing articles to the Guardian regularly, whenever there is his column, the Guardian's sales will be much higher than usual, which shows Gao Han's influence and attention in the UK.

In view of this, the Guardian's World Cup special topic focuses on Gao Han's column. They are even willing to provide free air tickets, travel expenses and other expenses to allow Gao Han to go to South Africa to watch the game live.

Originally, Sky TV also invited Gao Han as a commentator for the competition to be a guest, but after thinking about it over and over again, Gao Han politely declined. He hoped to leave more time to travel with his wife and children.

Neither he nor Lin Xiake have been to Africa yet.

Just as the two were discussing their trip to Africa, Gao Han had been waiting for the phone call for many days and finally arrived.

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"I am very happy to meet you, Deputy Chief Li, Mr. Herzog, and Mr. De Mellon."

The next morning, Gao Han received the design team of the new stadium flying from Switzerland in the advanced conference room of the Chinatown Training Center in the southern suburbs of Madrid, and their carefully designed works for months were accompanied by them.

“So too.”

They are both famous figures in their respective fields, so they greet each other politely and politely when they first met.

During his time coaching Bayern Munich, Gao Han met with Herzog and De Mellon, and he became less unfamiliar with his words. When Gao Han praised the Allianz Stadium, the two architects' impression of him was immediately higher.

"To be honest, that was our pinnacle in sports architecture, and we have not surpassed it even now." Herzog said sincerely, but soon changed his mind.

"Of course, we hope to make a breakthrough in the new stadium in Chinatown."

Gao Han nodded with a smile, of course he would not take this statement seriously, after all, they are also businessmen.

In addition to bringing renderings on this trip, they also specially prepared an exquisite model and placed it on the conference table.

The whole new stadium is irregular in shape, surrounded by a circle of slender skeletons, with as many as 260 brick pillars. It is inspired by the combination of Gothic architecture and traditional Chinese brickwork, giving people a very simple, heavy and solid feeling.

Each brick pillar is an independent structural element. By elevating, lowering, moving closer or distant, it adapts to different site constraints and supports the building body. Above them is a geometric structure that supports a huge circular ring, connecting each pillar to form the momentum of stars arching the moon.

After passing through an annular steel beam, the brick pillars extend from top to bottom, from inside to outside, and extend in a sunken structure, converging into a rectangle the size of a court and hanging directly above the court.

Near the ground, the brick pillars are cut, allowing an arched area to be cut between each pillar and the main building to be used as the entrance and exit hall of the court. It has a very good arcade pattern in southern China, allowing fans to stroll around the shops on the ground floor without any obstacles.

In addition to the overall stadium, there is also a quaint brick-built third-floor shopping center with the same style next to it. It is connected to the stadium with a bridge. The bridge is composed of arches, and the open-air upstairs passage looks like an ancient Chinese city wall and a special beacon tower design, which is very distinctive. You can directly enter the stadium stands from both upstairs and downstairs.

The entire design is very imaginative, but at the same time gives people a very classical sense of history and culture.

Gao Han and others were all lit up.

"In the meaning of Mr. Gao Han conveyed by Deputy Chief Li, I fully extracted a concept, which is to create a sense of home for fans, so that they can feel warm and safe."

Gao Han nodded repeatedly when he saw it. Whether it was the main design of the court or the shopping center, it gave him a very familiar sense of intimacy. It was a bit like a Western castle, but it had strong Chinese elements, especially the bridge, which was the finishing touch, making people feel like a stone arch bridge and the Great Wall at first sight.

"After listening to the opinions of Deputy Chief Li, we ran around the home courts of major European teams. We worked hard to find a very special feeling. We have visited the Allianz Stadium in Liverpool, the Bernabeu in Real Madrid, the Camp Nou in Barcelona, ​​and the Allianz in Bayern Munich..."

Speaking of this, Herzog smiled slightly, "I am a hardcore fan, Mr. Gao Han. I play at least one game a week in Switzerland, so I hope to design a landmark building that brings warmth and security to the fans, while also integrating culture, history and sports."

"I never pursue any trend, nor follow any architectural style, nor deliberately distinguish it from anyone. I like casualness, and naturally, I believe that every building will bring people a different feeling. We should not simply cater to the taste of the times, but should strive to grasp the eternity of the moment."

"This is an era of rapid change, and so is professional football, but each of us should work hard to explore some emotion hidden in the deepest part and release it. So I hope that this stadium can make a unique mark that belongs to this and Chinatown on every fan who walks into this place and walks into the stands."

As soon as Herzog finished speaking, Gao Han clapped vigorously as he heard it.

Immediately afterwards, everyone in the entire conference room applauded in unison.

This was indeed a very outstanding display, especially the design concept expounded by Herzog, which coincided with what Gao Han thought. The new stadium he designed with a strong sense of history and humanity conquered Gao Han and everyone present from the first glance.

It is obvious that Herzog and De Mellon are not only designing a new stadium, but also breaking through themselves.

They hope to further think about the connection between space and human life and emotions based on sports buildings such as Allianz Stadium and Bird's Nest, in addition to the futuristic materials, lines and conceptual settings.

There is no doubt that this is also a rare breakthrough.
Chapter completed!