Wasteful, or Criminally Wasteful?

Constructing enormous new structures for a one-off sports event hardly ever works out in the host country's favor; the choice these days tends to be between minimizing cost (as London did with its easy-to-collapse 2012 Olympic Stadium) and impressing the world with giant wasteful beauties (like China and Russia did with their Olympic Games, to varying degrees of success). The world is littered with huge stadiums that will never be fully used again, and some of Brazil's 12 World Cup stadiums (some brand-new, some merely redone for the events) will surely face a similar fate. So let's rank them!

These rankings are based on a highly scientific* formula of how cool the design is; how wasteful the stadium is (i.e., how likely a stadium of that size in that place is to be used after the Cup); how remote it is (from Rio, thus contributing a whole lot of burned fossil fuel from players and fans), and how many people died while constructing it (This is a real statistic! In 2014!). Also, I've thrown in how difficult I think the name of the stadium is to pronounce. Your reactions are welcome in the comments section below. These are in order from least worst to worst.

12. Arena Fonte Nova

Nice. Nice. Located in Salvador, the largest city in the northeast coast of Brazil, Fonte Nova seems like it was actually designed to be functional by architects Marc Duwe and Claas Schulitz. It may look from above like a donut, but one section of the blue-green stadium has a big gap, almost like a vent, boosting air circulation in the hot city. Even better, it can be reused later as an amphitheater, with the gapped section looking out on a paved area for concertgoers.

11. Estadio Mineirao

This stadium was previously declared a national monument, so even though it's new, it has kind of a cool old styling thing going on. Vintage stadium! It sort of looks like, I don't know, like Wrigley Field. It'll also be used in the 2016 Olympics, unlike some of the more inconveniently located stadiums on this list....Continue Reading

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