Lusail Stadium
Gold-latticed stadium bowl built for a World Cup final, its roof one of the largest cable-net spans ever raised.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lusail Stadium tells the story of the loudest night in World Cup history, the December 2022 final between Argentina and France, and traces the stadium's rise from empty coastal sand twenty years earlier as the planned city of Lusail took shape around it. It covers the design of the record-setting cable-net roof and its triangular lattice borrowed from lanterns across the Arab world. The plan afterward is to shrink the bowl from its current eighty thousand seats down to forty thousand, with the rest becoming homes, shops, a clinic and a school.
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