Pop Star Architecture: BIG Designs Multi-Use Stadium for Shakira’s World Tour in Madrid, Spain | ArchDaily

Save this picture!Renderings for the Shakira Stadium project in Madrid, 2026. Image © © BIG-Bjarke Ingels GroupWritten by Antonia PiñeiroPublished on March 30, 2026 Share ShareFacebookTwitterMailPinterestWhatsappOrhttps://www.archdaily.com/1040113/pop-star-architecture-big-designs-multi-use-stadium-for-shakiras-world-tour-in-madrid-spain Clipboard "COPY" CopyKanye West turning a Tadao Ando Malibu beach house into a ruin, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi purchasing and re-selling the 1955 Richard Neutra-designed Brown-Sidney House, and fashion designer Marc Jacobs renovating a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house near New York City are just a few examples of pop stars' affair with historically significant architecture. Celebrities, like soccer players, form an elite group characterized by a high concentration of wealth and significant social status. They are not only buyers of high-end architecture as authored property and cultural capital, but also agents of its preservation and promotion. This year, we are seeing new examples of this agency at work from a more abstract yet also more popular perspective: from the stage design for Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance to a newly designed stadium for Shakira by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, architecture is used as a vehicle for promoting Latin American identity.+ 8 Save this picture!Renderings for the Shakira Stadium project in Madrid, 2026. Image © © BIG-Bjarke Ingels GroupOn Friday, March 27, Shakira announced through her social m...