ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses non-sporting uses of sport architecture and explores a range of other moments when sport, architecture, and violence have come together with lethal results. Sport architecture, like sport itself, is a global phenomenon. So too are the events indelibly linked to sport architecture, particularly stadia. There are occasions when the coverage of sporting events inevitably gives rise to discussion of the non-sporting ends of the spaces in which the game is played. The expectation of a moment of pleasure observing a game from the stands was turned instead into a carceral nightmare–armed soldiers on the pitch monitoring prisoners arrayed in the stands. Changing rooms became torture chambers. The scene played out at other grounds around the country, effectively converting a nation’s sporting and foot-balling infrastructure into an extension of the martial might of the Pinochet regime.
