Qatar 2022 venues nominated for Stadium of the Year 2020 contest
17 Feb 2021 - 8:00
By Irfan Bukhari | The Peninsula
Doha: Qatar’s two brand new 2022 FIFA World Cup venues – Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium and Education City Stadium – have been nominated for a global ‘Stadium of the Year 2020’ contest.
A Polish website StadiumDB.com, based on Stadiony.net, is conducting the global vote, details have shown. The website hosts the annual ‘Stadium of the Year’ competition, which managed to bring record interest and became the world’s largest public vote on stadiums opened every year.
In ‘Popular Vote’, people can select their ’top five’ stadiums from the list of 20 candidates, giving a 5-star rating to the best stadium, 4 stars to the second and analogically with 3, 2 and 1 star. Voters can select five stadiums only and the vote lasts until midnight on March 7.
Swiss studios MLZD and Sollberger Bögli Architects have completed Stade de la Tuilière stadium in the city of Lausanne, which is defined by its rectangular form and cutback corners.
Built for Football Club Lausanne-Sport, the 12,500-seat stadium has a distinctive form generated by the decision to remove the building s corners creating four angular overhangs.
Stade de la Tuilière was built for Football Club Lausanne-Sport We aimed to profit through omission: cutting off the corners of the stadium became the creative, organisational and structural core of the design, said MLZD and Sollberger Bögli Architects. This emotionalises the building and thus becoming the expression of an emotional game, the studios told Dezeen.