Will charges currently rocking the football world upend some of the starchitect-designed stadiums being built across the globe? In the wake of the United States' indictment of 14 FIFA officials and marketing executives over graft and corruption earlier this week, and the news that the Swiss Office of the Attorney General was opening an investigation into how Russia and Qatar were chosen as hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, it appears that renewed focus may be placed on the Qatari bid process, as well as the already-controversial construction methods that have met with condemnation from human rights groups such as Amnesty International. How might this affect, say, the future of Zaha Hadid's Al Wakrah Stadium?
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