The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) revealed the design for Lusail Stadium, in Qatar, the venue at which the opening and final games of the 2022 FIFA World Cup will take place.
The final appearance of the biggest and central venue of the games, designed by British firm Foster + Partners, had not been revealed until now, while most designs of the eight 2022 FIFA World Cup stadiums were subject of public debate, as the controversial Al Wakrah Stadium designed by Zaha Hadid.

The main characteristique 'golden bowl' is its facade takes its inspiration from Arab architecture, and the region's traditional fanar lanterns. The new stadium forms the centerpiece of the newly built Lusail City metropolis Located 15km north of central Doha.

The 80,000 seat-capacity venue will be the largest stadium of the tournament, which will kick off on November 21, 2022, and be the first to take place in the Arab world.

The 'golden bowl' facade takes inspiration from the region's traditional fanar lanterns.
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Norman Foster is considered by many to be the most prominent architect in Britain. He won the 1999 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2009 Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes Prize.

Lord Foster rebuilt the Reichstag as a new German Parliament in Berlin and designed a contemporary Great Court for the British Museum. He linked St. Paul's Cathedral to the Tate Modern with the Millennium Bridge, a steel footbridge across the Thames. He designed the Hearst Corporation Building in Manhattan, at 57th Street and Eighth Avenue.

He was born in Manchester, England, in 1935. Among his firm’s many other projects are London’s City Hall, the Bilbao Metro in Spain, the Canary Wharf Underground Station in London and the renovated courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

In the 1970s, Lord Foster was one of the most visible practitioners of high-tech architecture that fetishized machine culture. His triumphant 1986 Hong Kong and Shanghai bank building, conceived as a kit-of-parts plugged into a towering steel frame, was capitalism's answer to the populist Pompidou Center in Paris.

Nicolai Ouroussoff, The Times’s architecture critic, has written that although Lord Foster’s work has become sleeker and more predictable in recent years, his forms are always driven by an internal structural logic, and they treat their surroundings with a refreshing bluntness.

Awarded the Prince of Asturias of the Arts 2009.

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Published on: December 18, 2018
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