In the morning, Manchester is blessed with a rare amount of sunshine.

Gao Han sat in the shade of the garden tree, watching Xiao Gao Shen hold on to the bench, staggering away, turning back every two or three steps, grinning at his father, revealing a small mouth with four front teeth, and giggling.

It was so cute.

Every time he saw him laughing, Gao Han couldn't help but wave at him, motioning for him to walk back to his father to hug, but the kid turned his head very deliberately and continued to walk forward until he reached the end of the bench, he slowly moved his steps, turned to the other side, and then slowly walked back.

He is only a year old, and he is not very stable when he walks, and he needs someone to hold him, or something to help him.

In the words of the old man in the family, this is a smart little ghost who knows how to be afraid of falling.

Gao Han has been playing on weekdays, and occasionally has time to come home, and he is relatively busy, so it is difficult to find time to accompany his son, but it is strange to say that Xiao Gaoshen is very close to him and likes to chase him the most.

This kid is not clingy, Gao Han only needs to sit with him, he can play for a long time by himself, and occasionally when he encounters interesting things, he will giggle and laugh, which makes Gao Han himself a little inexplicable, but he thinks it is cute and interesting.

Ms. Lin, who writes in her living room, has just set up her own company in Beijing, developed her own news app on Apple's iOS platform, and is just getting started.

In the past, when Gao Han was busy with the competition, she had to take care of the children and the company's affairs, which was also busy at both ends, but now that Gao Han is on vacation, she can devote herself to the company's affairs and hand over the children to her husband.

Gao Han is also very supportive of Lin Xia's entrepreneurial plan, and has agreed to become the second in-depth columnist signed by their company, specializing in football, which is also what he is best at.

"Be careful. ”

Gao Han saw that Xiao Gaoshen walked behind him with a long wooden chair, and walked back with a smile, as if he was playing hide and seek, which was very interesting, so he hurriedly reminded him, for fear that this kid would accidentally run fast and fall.

However, it's really strange, Xiao Gaoshen can't walk independently, but as long as he is given a finger or asked him to hold something, he can walk like a fly and walk very steadily.

Perhaps, this is the so-called sense of security.

"Hey, boy, come here, let's go. Gao Han shouted at Xiao Gao Shen on the other side.

The kid giggled and shook his head, wanting to keep playing.

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

When Xiao Gao Shen on the other side of the wooden chair heard this, he immediately walked over quickly with the bench in his hand, and shouted to his father in a loud voice.

Gao Han bent down, picked up his son who pounced on him, and kissed him vigorously on his pink little face.

"Let's go, find Mommy. ”

Father and son returned home playfully all the way.

After entering the living room, Gao Han put Xiao Gaoshen on the floor, and the kid immediately slid like a loach, swished on the ground and crawled very fast, and suddenly rushed into Lin Xia's arms on the sofa.

"You're really good at calculating time, I've just finished my work, and you're going to take the burden. Lin Xia glanced at Gao Han with disgust.

Gao Han pretended to have a triumphant expression, as if to say, don't you know that this great immortal can pinch it?

When Lin Xia saw it, he snorted, and then laughed.

"By the way, my dad and my mom are asking, when are we going back to Beijing?" Lin Xia asked as she became intimate with her son.

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

Two days ago, Manchester City had already begun to disband the holiday, and all the players either went to the national team to prepare for the World Cup, or they started to take vacation, and Gao Han himself had two days off.

However, it is really uncomfortable to be used to the stressful season life and suddenly be idle.

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

Over in Madrid, the first version of the planning and design of the new stadium in Chinatown will come out in the next few days, Gao Han will definitely go over to see it, and there are also a lot of things on the Chinese side, especially the matter of the Beijing Chinatown Youth Training Center, Gao Han must go back to see it in person, especially the selection of talent days, which is a top priority and cannot be missed.

This summer, Gao Han also took on an extra job, which was to write for a column for the Guardian.

This is not because Gao Han is greedy for a little money, but because Greene Wald facilitated the cooperation between Lin Xia's company and several authoritative media such as The Guardian and The Times in terms of news.

According to the data given by Greene Wald, Gao Han is now not only the highest-paid columnist in the UK, but also after regularly writing to the Guardian, every time 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 feature is focused on Gao Han's column, and they are even willing to provide free airfare, 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 guest commentator to conduct on-site commentary of the game, but after thinking about it again, Gao Han politely declined, and he hoped to leave more time to accompany his wife and children to travel around.

Neither he nor Lin Xiake have ever been to Africa.

Just when the two were discussing their trip to Africa, Gao Han's long-awaited call finally came.

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"It's a great pleasure to meet you, Deputy Chief Chef Lee, Mr. Herzog, Mr. de Meuron. ”

The next morning, Gao Han received the design team of the new stadium flown in from Switzerland in the senior conference room of the Chinatown training center in the southern suburbs of Madrid, accompanied by their work that had been carefully designed for months.

"So do we. ”

Both of them are well-known figures in their respective fields, so they were polite and polite when they first met.

During Gao Han's tenure at Bayern Munich, he had a relationship with Herzog and De Meuron, and he was a little less rusty when he spoke, and when Gao Han praised the Allianz Arena, the impression of these two architects on him was immediately raised.

"To be honest, it was the pinnacle of sports architecture that we haven't even been able to surpass. Herzog said sincerely, but quickly changed his tune.

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

Gao Han smiled and nodded, of course he wouldn't take this statement to heart, after all, they were also businessmen.

In addition to the renderings, they also prepared a beautiful model and placed it on the conference table.

The new stadium is irregularly shaped, surrounded by a circle of slender skeletons, as many as 260 brick pillars, inspired by the combination of Gothic architecture and traditional Chinese brickwork, giving people a very simple and heavy feeling.

Each brick pillar is an independent structural element, which is raised, lowered, moved closer or farther away to adapt to different site constraints and support the main body of the building, while above them is supported by a huge circular geometric structure, which links each pillar together to form the momentum of the stars and the moon.

After the brick pillars pass through the annular steel beams, they extend in a sunken structure from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, and are bundled into a rectangle the size of a pitch, which is suspended directly above the pitch.

Closer to the ground, the brick pillars are cut to create an arched area between each pillar and the main building, which serves as the entrance and exit hall of the stadium, which is very similar to the arcade pattern of southern China, allowing fans to walk around the shops on the ground floor, rain or shine.

In addition to the stadium as a whole, there is also a quaint brick third-floor shopping mall with the same style design, which is connected to the stadium by a covered bridge, which is composed of arches, and the open-air upstairs passage is like an ancient Chinese city wall, as well as a special beacon design, which is very distinctive, and the upstairs and downstairs can directly enter the stadium stands.

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

Gao Han and the others were all amazed.

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

Gao Han nodded again and again, whether it was the main design of the stadium or the shopping center, it gave him a very familiar sense of intimacy, a bit like a castle in the West, but with strong Chinese elements, especially the covered bridge, which can be described as the finishing touch, making people feel like a stone arch bridge and the Great Wall at a glance.

"After listening to the advice of Deputy Chef Li, we went to the home stadiums of the major European teams, we tried to find a very special feeling, we went to the Allianz Arena in Liverpool, the Bernabeu in Real Madrid, the Camp Nou in Barcelona, the Allianz ...... in Bayern Munich"

Herzog smiled slightly, "I'm a die-hard fan, Mr. Gao Han, and I play at least one game a week in Switzerland, so I wanted to design an iconic building that would bring warmth and security to the fans, while at the same time integrating culture, history and sports." ”

"I never chase any trend, nor do I follow any architectural style, nor do I deliberately distinguish myself from anyone, I like to be casual and natural, I believe that every building will bring a different feeling, we should not simply cater to the taste of the times, but should strive to grasp the eternity of the moment. ”

"It's a time of rapid change, and it's the same with professional football, but each of us should try to find out what kind of emotion is deep and release it, so I hope that this stadium can leave a unique mark on every fan who walks in here and walks into the stands. ”

As soon as Herzog's words fell, Gao Han applauded vigorously.

Immediately afterward, everyone in the room applauded.

This is indeed a very good display, especially the design concept expounded by Herzog, which coincides with Gao Han's thoughts, and the new stadium he designed with a strong sense of history and humanity has conquered Gao Han and everyone present from the first sight.

It's clear that Herzog and de Meuron are not just designing a new stadium, they're pushing the boundaries themselves.

They hope to build on sports buildings such as the Allianz Arena and the Bird's Nest, and to go beyond the futuristic materials, lines and conceptual settings, and to think further about the connection between space and human life and emotions.

Undoubtedly, this is also a rare breakthrough.

"That's what I want!" Gao Han said, holding Herzog's hand hard.

(End of chapter)