Archinect - Features2024-05-07T07:57:51-04:00https://archinect.com/features/article/150332845/clearly-the-world-cup-format-is-not-sustainable-a-conversation-with-wilkinsoneyre-sports-director-sam-wright
‘Clearly, The World Cup Format is Not Sustainable’; A Conversation with WilkinsonEyre Sports Director, Sam Wright Niall Patrick Walsh2022-12-20T12:03:00-05:00>2022-12-25T18:52:43-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ef/ef43b3c64c45322f15180a50a85b5994.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/134029/2022-world-cup-in-qatar" target="_blank">2022 FIFA World Cup</a> was mired in controversy. Human rights groups saw Qatar’s hosting of the event as an affront to the LGBTQ+ community, free speech, and <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150331637/qatar-puts-number-of-2022-world-cup-migrant-worker-deaths-between-400-and-500" target="_blank">ethical labor practices</a>. Ethics and standards groups investigated whether Qatar had ‘bought’ the event following rumours of bribery. Fans and sporting bodies alike even questioned the timing of the event, and its interference with domestic league calendars.
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<p>While these concerns targeted at Qatar at the 2022 World Cup specifically, the event was also a catalyst for environmental groups to ask broader questions about the carbon cost of major temporary sports and cultural events, and whether they can be justified by long-term economic or social benefits. These questions are not new or bespoke to Qatar; they also formed the basis for our feature articles on both <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150288027/dystopia-in-the-desert-expo-2020-dubai-embodies-our-unsustainable-attitude-towards-urbanism" target="_blank">Expo 2020 Dubai</a> and the <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150276285/for-host-cities-the-olympics-are-no-game" target="_blank">2020 Tokyo Olympic Games</a>.
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<p>For <a href="https://archinect.com/WilkinsonEyre" target="_blank">WilkinsonEyre’s</a> Sports and Leisure Leader Sam Wright, whose team has delivered an abundance of major sports project...</p>
https://archinect.com/features/article/150135590/baseball-s-rightful-place-in-architecture-history-a-review-of-goldberger-s-new-book-ballpark
Baseball's Rightful Place in Architecture History: A Review of Goldberger's New Book "Ballpark" Shane Reiner-Roth2019-05-22T12:04:00-04:00>2019-05-29T21:15:45-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/af/afbef7c184b4ae89bcaccf94a25065c1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The ballpark building type has been overlooked from accounts of modern architecture history by its most prolific writers. With <em><a href="https://outpost.archinect.com/store/ballpark-paul-goldberger?category=Books" target="_blank">Ballpark</a>, </em><a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/81114/paul-goldberger" target="_blank">Paul Goldberger</a>'s treatise on the architectural history of ballpark design, he succeeds in assuring his reader that the building type is as worthy of design scholarship as any other. </p>
<p>Join us in celebrating <em>Ballpark</em>, the latest book by Paul Goldberger at <a href="http://outpost.archinect.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archinect Outpost</a> on Saturday, June 1st, 5-8pm. </p>
<p><em>The doors will open at 5 and will close promptly after 6 as the conversation begins between Paul Goldberger and Paul Petrunia, the founder and director of Archinect, on the content on his newest book. </em></p>
<p><strong><em>Ballpark</em> can be <a href="https://outpost.archinect.com/store/ballpark-paul-goldberger?category=Books" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">preordered here</a> for pickup at the event, or shipping immediately after the event. Please go <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/paul-goldberger-to-present-ballpark-at-archinect-outpost-tickets-61109553319" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> to RSVP for the event. </strong></p>
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