This week on Dezeen, we revealed the 15 stadiums that will host games at the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia, including one that will be built on The Line at Neom.
Named Neom Stadium, the 46,000-capacity venue was revealed this week as part of Saudi Arabia’s official World Cup bid. According to the bid document the stadium, which is set to be built 350 metres above the ground, will be “the most unique stadium in the world”.
It is one of 15 stadiums that will host games at the tournament, which is due to take place in 10 years time.
In other architecture news, this week saw the announcement of the Stirling Prize shortlist, which was made up of six “purposeful yet unassuming” buildings.
All shortlisted projects are in England, with just two of the six located outside of London.
To mark the start of the Olympics, French designer Mathieu Lehanneur’s “flying cauldron” was lit in Paris. Designed to be “a beacon in the night and a sun within reach”, the 30-metre-high cauldron has a seven-diameter ring of fire at its base.
Also in Paris, Louis Vuitton creative director Pharrell Williams called for architecture competitions to return to the Olympics at LA 2028.
Continuing our Olympic Impact series, we spoke to Carbon Market Watch’s Benja Faecks who said that the Paris 2024 Olympics sustainability efforts were “not enough”. Meanwhile, architect François Chatillon reflected on the architectural legacy of the Paris Olympics.
We also looked back at 15 Olympic architecture icons from the last 100 years.
In more sports-related news, Adidas unveiled its “first football super shoe”. Named the F50+, the football boot was designed to integrate advances in running shoe technology.
Adidas footwear development director Harry Miles likened the boot to a super shoe – a name given to a generation of record-beating running trainers created over the past five years.
Popular projects on Dezeen this week included a ruin turned into a house with the addition of a shipping container, a museum in Seoul designed by Kengo Kuma and a cluster of silvered cedar buildings on a remote archipelago in Ontario.
Our latest lookbooks featured living rooms with board-marked concrete and living rooms illuminated by paper lamps.
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