If you were going to build a stadium in the desert how would you do it? If you are MZ & Partners Architects and you are building a stadium in Qatar then you build it underground and you make it the world’s first open-air, air-conditioned stadium. Besides being underground, The Wall, aka The Laptop, will have no traditional floodlights. Instead, the architects have decided to embed the lighting in the architecture which is pretty clever in my opinion. With an expected completion date in 2010, this is definitely a stadium to keep an eye on. More images after the jump.

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