Qatar’s stadium - "most expensive ever’
By strawberry_shisha •
Qatar’s stadium ‘to be the most expensive ever’ |
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| The Sports City Stadium, one of 12 facilities being built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, would be among the most technologically advanced, with removable seats that can scale the building down to a 10,000-seat amphitheater | ||
The Sports City Stadium to be constructed for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar could be the most expensive sports facility ever built, the architect who is designing the project has said. Originally designed to accommodate 45,000 spectators, the stadium’s capacity is now being increased to 65,000 which could take its cost past $2bn, Dan Meis was quoted as saying on the website sportingnews.com. “A lot of the cost is the fact that it’s much more than a stadium,” Meis said. “That’s kind of the big idea, that it’s a full entertainment destination in one building. It’s a mall, it includes a hotel tower, an office tower and a media tower that all support this giant floating roof and there’s occupied space up on the roof, as well. There are places where you can look from the roof of the building down to the pitch or to the plaza.” Meis, a senior principal at the international architectural firm Populous based in Kansas City, said the final cost would not be known until he completed a more detailed design, but in the end it could “creep up to $2bn and change”. The Sports City Stadium, one of 12 facilities being built for the mega event, would also be among the most technologically advanced, with removable seats that can scale the building down to a 10,000-seat amphitheatre. The project is inspired by the shape of a Bedouin tent, but Meis has integrated flexible design elements into it, enabling them to adapt to their environment. “The notion of these tents that were flexible and could grow, depending on the number of people utilising them, was really interesting,” Meis had earlier told Wired.com. The stadium will have a partially retractable roof, which will open and close in 15 to 20 minutes. The technology to adjust seating is based on Japan’s Saitama Stadium, also designed by Meis. Large seating blocks move on trucks and they can slide back and be moved elsewhere to open up space. They are similar to the retractable field used at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The cooling system will be combined with the stadium’s retractable roof, extending its reach beyond the pitch to plazas outside the venue to create an oasis-like feel in the desert. An in-stadium cooling system will be installed to help players and spectators from overheating in a climate where temperatures surpass 100 degrees. Water will run through an absorption chiller that will chill the water and send it into another tank. The tank will pump 64-degree air at the ankle and neck level in each row of seats. The air will be distributed throughout the stadium, eventually producing an 80 degree temperature near the soccer pitch. Meis said he wanted the venue to have a lasting effect. “Often countries will build stadiums for the events, and they have difficulty utilising the building afterwards,” he said, citing Beijing’s 2008 Olympic Bird’s Nest as an example. |
hehe... TRUE.....!!
Amusing to see that the projects I am referring to have been so thoroughly killed off that there are people who don't even know what I'm talking about.Kind of proves my point about how projects die a death here and sink without a trace.
2 billion?? is that it.... *(^$@!)(*&%$# C'mon Qatar.....2 billion????!!!
for WC 2022, IF this will be executed. I'm sure this could be a magnet for football fans around the world to watch international matches. And this is more fun and attractive to gaze at compare to a naked woman body. lol
New libraryQatar Foundation Libraryhttp://www.qf.org.qa/education/qatar-foundation-central-libraryCarnegie Mellon University in Qatar Libraryhttp://www.qatar.cmu.edu/125/libraryTexas A&M University at Qatar Libraryhttp://library.qatar.tamu.edu/Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar Libraryhttp://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/elibrary/Commonwealth University in Qatar Libraryhttp://www.qatar.vcu.edu/library/Georgetown University Library · School of Foreign Service in Qatar Libraryhttp://www.library.georgetown.edu/qatar/Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies Libraryhttp://library.qfis.edu.qa/The Northwestern University in Qatar Library http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/qatar-campus
Qatar Museums AuthorityPay a visit. Its free so you become more educated. This country is making progress at a pace faster then your brain can think.anyways here they are since you were farting your comments...Qatar Museums Authority http://www.qma.com.qa/online/index.php/enNational Museum of Qatar http://www.qma.com.qa/online/index.php/en/collections/national-museum-of-qatarMuseum of Islamic Art http://www.mia.org.qa/Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Arthttp://www.mathaf.org.qa/All in the space of 3-5 yearsThere is a list for everything.Education to Charity.Idiot!
wonder how many families in Somalia could be fed with this money!!!!!!!!! http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/2011720756724143.html
It makes me think back to the days of Qatar deciding it would be a cultural hub. There were grand plans for the new library, the new photography museum, the renovated national museum.
Then everyone just lost interest when it got too hard (and other reasons that are best put aside) and Qatar quietly walked away from its ambitions.
I wish they would just be a bit more realistic in what they say they will achieve.
One of the problems here is that practicality gives way to glamour and excess. The stadia should serve the purpose and be easy to maintain in the long run..
I highly doubt that this will ever be executed.
xxc I totally agree with you :)
Amazing.. Not often an architect gets an open cheque to design and build the stadium..
Costs can vary dramatically - look at Alianz Stadium which came in around budget and Wembley which had a huge over run..
But qatar need 50 yrs more to reach to de status of dubai...
Else on topic.. How much they gonna use and show to de world.. Money can't buy success.. With all respect dear qatar..
Qatar is to show off their wealth to the rest of the world; once Dubai did
For that much money, they could just buy every Qatari national an airline ticket and tickets to the matches for the world cup in another country.
with all my respect to the developpers, i dont think it is the right way to host a football world cup. instead of burning millions on stadium, they can invest it in different way to change the structure of the society, of the services in here, and build normal stadiums.
I wonder if the slogan from the Field of Dreams movie will apply: "If you build it they will come."