Qatar’s new stadiums are Instagram-ready and waiting, but there’s no getting away from the environmental cost of their construction – nor the question of what to do with them when the crowds go home
”. It would be a remarkable achievement so radically to transform an ex-stadium in this way, but these vague-sounding plans, 10 years after Qatar won the bid, prompt scepticism. There has to be some doubt, too, whether the remaining stadiums would easily be filled, even at reduced sizes.
These buildings also have to look as if they are at least trying to be sustainable, because environmental rhetoric is now built into grand international endeavours.
This is where the bowls and tents and dunes come in, with their allusions to nature and culture. They come with some virtuoso PR guff – “alive with heritage, an icon for the future”, “where desert stories unfold”, “a shimmering jewel of inspiration”. The patterns on the facade of the Ahmad Bin Ali stadium, by British based BDP Pattern, “: the importance of family, the beauty of the desert, the native flora and fauna and local and international trade”.
‘A certain poised dynamism’: Al Janoub stadium, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, has gained notoriety for its resemblance to a vulva.
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