Building of the week: Stadium 974

The Qatar World Cup begins this weekend, and the list of objections to it is at this point long and well rehearsed, from corruption to greenwash, to human rights abuses and oppressive anti-LGBTQ laws, to the absurdity of holding sporting events in the desert in the first place. But this I do like: the first temporary stadium in the history of the competition.

is made out of shipping containers. 974 of them, to be precise – which also happens to be the international dialling code ...