Stade de France

In July 1992, the FIFA selected France to host the 1998 World Cup, prompting the country to commit to building a new stadium with 80,000 covered seats, as it only had one existing stadium of that capacity, the Vélodrome in Marseille. Two years later, an architectural competition was launched for this central venue, featuring proposals from Jean Nouvel and a team led by architects Michel Macary and Aymeric Zublena, later joined by Michel Regembal and Claude Constantini from CR Architecture, forming the MZRC team.