Qatar 2022 - Venue Designs

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Design renderings of the German architect Albert Speer who expects to build a good number of the 12 venues in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. Pretty neat, eh?

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Edited December 15, 2010 by Mr. Big Dog

[The_Dude 1,142]

Cool design, but you have to wonder, isn't building such stadiums in a nation with no domestic league, or any hope of sustaining one a huge waste? Giving Qatar the world cup bid was a horrible mistake, both for fans and players.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

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Edited December 15, 2010 by Mr. Big Dog

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Cool design, but you have to wonder, isn't building such stadiums in a nation with no domestic league, or any hope of sustaining one a huge waste? Giving Qatar the world cup bid was a horrible mistake, both for fans and players.

I don't disagree that this was a bad decision by FIFA. But you still gotta admire the architecture proposals.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

a nation that bought the winning bid... a nation that's going to give many players heat stroke... this just adds on to the stupidity as Rob was saying with the building stadiums that have no other use.... What a waste.

[The_Dude 1,142]

There is nothing really for the western fans to enjoy. I'm not saying that alcohol is the be all end all, but I sure don't want to sit through a football match with no booze, in 120 degree weather and no hot women to even look at.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

There is nothing really for the western fans to enjoy. I'm not saying that alcohol is the be all end all, but I sure don't want to sit through a football match with no booze, in 120 degree weather and no hot women to even look at.

no booze????? So FIFA doesn't regulate the stadiums and their amenities?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

There is nothing really for the western fans to enjoy. I'm not saying that alcohol is the be all end all, but I sure don't want to sit through a football match with no booze, in 120 degree weather and no hot women to even look at.

It's not all black and white. FIFA knows that there cannot be a World Cup w/o booze.

Doha's luxury hotels have been serving alcohol for a long time. The government is considering expanding the area where alcohol consumption is permitted for the duration of the World Cup. For four weeks, the holy Koran will be suspended in specially marked "fan zones," where beer and bratwurst will be served. This is what FIFA expects from Qatar.

One of the party zones is in Al-Rumaila Park, within sight of the Fanar center. Ijas doesn't have a problem with this. "Islam doesn't prohibit men from taking their shirts off. But they should be covered from the navel to the knees." But Ijas, who lived in England for many years, knows that after 16 pints, few fans can tell where their navels or knees are.

The country's clerics seem to have adjusted to the idea of being lenient for four weeks. There had been concerns over how Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi would react to the FIFA decision. The president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars lives in Doha and is known as a hardliner and an anti-Semite. But in his Friday prayer, the sheikh expressed his delight over the World Cup decision -- even after the ruling family had made it clear that a team from Israel, complete with its fans, would also be welcome.

[The_Dude 1,142]

no booze????? So FIFA doesn't regulate the stadiums and their amenities?

They might control the statdium revenues, but they are always subject to local laws. I've never been to Qatar, but from what my friend told me, the bars and nightclubs there are few and far between, and are quite exclusive for the wealthy.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They might control the statdium revenues, but they are always subject to local laws. I've never been to Qatar, but from what my friend told me, the bars and nightclubs there are few and far between, and are quite exclusive for the wealthy.

Read above - there will be plenty of opportunity to get liquored up during the World Cup.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Read above - there will be plenty of opportunity to get liquored up during the World Cup.

That seems quite sad. They will suspend their beliefs for the world cup? If I were a travelling fan, I would rather spend my money going to some mediteranean resort and watch the games on t.v. in a bar.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Read above - there will be plenty of opportunity to get liquored up during the World Cup.

Get liquored up and arrested for public indecency! Let the good times roll!

[Azzudiin 26]

None of the designs are dome stadiums, I thought part of the winning bid was air conditioned stadiums?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

None of the designs are dome stadiums, I thought part of the winning bid was air conditioned stadiums?

From the link I provided in the OP:

SPIEGEL: Qatar experiences temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer. Your designs foresee the pitch and the seating areas being cooled down to 25 degrees Celsius using heat exchangers. That will require enormous amounts of energy.

Speer: The accusation that we are wasting energy is bigoted. You only need to calculate just how much energy Germany's football leagues consume when they heat their football pitches in winter. It takes the same amount of energy to cool the seats as it does to heat them.

SPIEGEL: But the seats in German stadiums are not heated, even in the winter.

Speer: They are in the Netherlands. The energy we will use to cool the stadiums in Qatar will be obtained entirely from solar cells. Our aim is to work in a country with an extreme climate using sustainable and renewable energy.

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There is nothing really for the western fans to enjoy. I'm not saying that alcohol is the be all end all, but I sure don't want to sit through a football match with no booze, in 120 degree weather and no hot women to even look at.

So for once, we'll have a World Cup that isn't designed around the needs of Westerners? Nice.