Remember the giant lotus flower? You can now forget about it because the vision in Guangzhou has changed. It was probably most significant stadium plan announcement. After all, how often can you see ground work beginning on a 100,000-seat football stadium and only then learn how it would look? Especially during a pandemic, where global football was brought to a halt. This stadium became viral for one more reason than its scale, of course: the direct symbolism of a lotus flower.