FC Cincinnati's stadium will include a canopy that extends over every seat.

And yes, the orange glow remains – but in ribbons rather than a full wrap around the bowl-shaped stadium. So that spaceship-like rendering that's been bandied about has a new look.

The stadium will be a full bowl rather than one with open ends. That combined with the canopy that bounces down light and sound is aimed at keeping energy – and noise – inside the stadium.

These details were revealed for the first time in a light and sound study done by the team and submitted to the City of Cincinnati ahead of a planning commission meeting May 10, at which the team will seek final approval of the development plan.

A separate sound and light study for Music Hall and the Cincinnati Ballet, whose leaders expressed concern about noise and light, will be done separately outside of the city purview.

It's all to enhance fan experience, said FC Cincinnati President and General Manager Jeff Berding. And limiting noise and light will also help alleviate neighborhood concerns.

For instance, that monsoon last Saturday night during the game? Fans wouldn't have gotten wet. Sunny? The canopy provides shade.

Natural light will still flow in, since the pitch isn't covered. Previous renderings showed a partial canopy and a stadium completely wrapped in ETFE, short for ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, a plastic that glows.

Compare the old and new concepts:

In the new renderings, the ETFE is in ribbons, simliar to what's featured on Allianz Field in Minnesota.

"Stadiums – specifically MLS' soccer-specific stadiums – are becoming showpieces in the sports world and true attractions in the home markets," Berding said.

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When Major League Soccer-specific stadiums were starting to be built in the 1990s they resembled glorified high school stadiums.

Meanwhile, in Europe, teams were building bigger and better stadiums, with more amenities. As more teams joined the league and the franchise fee got more expensive, MLS began requiring teams to build higher-quality stadiums.

Today, it's widely thought the best MLS stadiums are in Minnesota, Los Angeles, Orlando and Kansas City, where FC Cincinnati's design gets a lot of its inspiration.

"The league is working with clubs to design and build stadiums that reflect more traditional European and South American styles that create an intimate, exciting atmosphere for games," Berding said. "We believe our design has those ambitions incorporated and pushes future expectations even further."

Some of those have retractable roofs, which Atlanta's MLS team has. But they're expensive, roughly $150 million just for the roof, Berding said.

Cincinnati City Council approved the stadium last year, green-lighting it in the West End. The city provided roughly $35 million in infrastructure help and the team itself is building the $250 million stadium. It's set to open in March of 2021. Land preparation is underway.

Last week, the team announced it had replaced architectural firm Meis with Populous, which has experience designing MLS stadiums and working with ETFE material. (Meis created the latest renderings, but Populous will take over from here.)

Don't expect the stadium to look like Nippert Stadium, where the team plays now. The new stadium is smaller, with 26,000 seats compared to Nippert's 32,200 or soccer games, and the bowl design means it's less steep inside the stadium, making it easier to get to seats, Berding said.

Other documents provided to the city by the team continue to show a development between Wade Street and where the city's District One police station sits on Ezzard Charles Drive. In these plans, the police station remains where it is, as does the Cincinnati Ballet.

A two-story team store will be located in that development as well as office and retail space and possibly a hotel, though no decisions have been made on the latter.

"We expect the stadium will be one of the city's prime attractions when it's completed, between its design and final look, as well as its capacity to connect the West End and Over-the-Rhine neighborhoods and move the city into an exciting and fun future," Berding said.

The area will include one or two parking garages provided by the county, though exactly where has not been decided. That's been a sticking point with county officials. They voted three times to provide 1,000 spaces of parking but had backed off the idea and wanted to build a garage near Findlay Market, which was thought to be able to serve both that market and the stadium.