The Fox Road Stand completes the enclosure of Trent Bridge Cricket Ground. An imaginative example of “air rights” development, the stand was built over, but not on, an adjacent car park. Only essential services and structural elements were permitted at ground level.

The necessity to raise the stand clear of the ground meant that the design is based on different structural principles from the more traditional pavilions at the Ground. The canopy is designed as a curved sail, held in tension by raking steel masts. The main body of the stand, with its arced profile, also sweeps clear of the ground. Only at its base, where the lower terrace fronts on to the pitch, is solid construction deployed.