Work is progressing on the late Zaha Hadid-designed Al Wakrah stadium in Qatar, as documented in newly released footage by the organization tasked with the construction of all venues and the necessary infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The 40,000-seat stadium will be one of eight venues across the small Gulf nation to host games for the 32 participating teams from November 21 through December 18, 2022.
Initially unveiled in 2013, the Al Wakrah Stadium project has attracted worldwide praise as much as ridicule for its organic design and also found itself at the center of allegations of workers and human rights abuses, as reported by Amnesty International and the International Trade Union Confederation.
Watch the video below to see how construction on the massive stadium, which AECOM serves as the design consultant for, had progressed by October 2018.
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Put a tally of how many workers died while showing this project please.
This has to be a consideration for accolades.
everyone who worked on it has or will die
I really don't get why "we" do business with those inhumane regimes, fuck them and their oil dollars.
"So you want to throw gay people off of tall buildings and throw stones at women who were raped? No stadium for you!"
I hope the fucker will collapse the night before opening match.
The only positive thing about this building is that Zaha made it look like a giant vulva.
Ahh great it looks like plenty of poor dead people, fire up the awards!
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