Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has told NBC the club is determined to retain White Hart Lane's claustrophobic atmosphere at their new stadium, promising supporters they will be closer to the pitch than at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.
Spurs' new £750 million home, adjacent to White Hart Lane, is scheduled to be ready for the start of the 2018-19 season.
Some Arsenal supporters have accused the Emirates, opened in 2006, of being too quiet and sanitised but Levy hopes the design of Spurs' still-unnamed new ground will ensure it does not face similar criticism.
"The first challenge we gave our architects was how can we retain the atmosphere that current exists in our stadium because it's a very tight bowl," Levy said in an NBC documentary featured on Tottenham's official website.
"So, we are five metres closer to the pitch than at a comparable stadium in north London -- that's the first thing. The other thing is that we're the only stadium in the UK that will have 17,000 seats in a single stand."
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The club has previously revealed that there will be less than six metres from the pitch to the front of the single tier stand, modelled on Borussia Dortmund's Yellow Wall, and that no front row seat will be more than eight metres away from the touchline across the ground -- an average of five metres closer to the pitch than at Arsenal.
Spurs' new stadium will have a capacity of 61,000 -- 1,000 more than at the Emirates -- but Levy insisted that one-upmanship was not the main consideration in reaching the figure.
"That wasn't the sole driver [building a bigger stadium than Arsenal]," he said. "The reason was simply that we have a season ticket waiting list of 58,000 people and had to find a solution. Clearly we went for the maximum we could."
Levy also warned that Spurs could face a similar period of financial prudence to the one Arsenal had after relocating once the new stadium is complete.
"Everybody thinks just because you have a bigger stadium you get more revenue and you'll have lots more money," Levy continued.
"But when you're spending this amount of money on a stadium we'll have a lot of debt we will have to repay. Over the medium to long term it gives you greater financial security and also as a player if you're playing for a big club you want to play in a big stadium."
Tottenham's new stadium will also host NFL and Levy revealed the inspiration behind the design, mentioning the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium, opened in 2009, and the Minnesota Vikings' U.S. Bank Stadium, which opened last year.
"Obviously the Dallas Cowboys stadium is magnificent. With the amount of detail they have gone into, that stadium obviously caught our attention," Levy said.
"The new Vikings stadium [too] -- the way they did their website was fantastic. We've tried to learn and had lots of conversations with those owners to see if we can learn from their experiences."