The architect for Chelsea's plans for Stamford Bridge says it will resemble a "castle".

Jacques Herzog of Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron told the Guardian that the firm's designs were intended to evoke “a castle, or a medieval walled village…something you wouldn't find anywhere else.

“It is really a structural thing, very naked in some way. It is not décor, but really one thing inside and out, not an envelope with something different inside."

But there is more than just architectural history informing the architect's vision of Abramovich's new stadium. Herzog said: “We have tried to make it a place where people will really feel at home. I've never had that feeling so strongly, as when I saw my first games in Liverpool and Manchester, how much you have this sense of a club's identity in the stadium in England – more than anywhere else in Europe."