Top 10 Worst Event Venue Designs

The retractable roof never worked properly, the tower wasn't finished until 1987, and the stadium's $1.5 billion debt wasn't paid off until 2006 — thirty years after the Games.

Baseball's most hated stadium features a dingy catwalks-and-ceiling dome where fly balls hit the roof, sight lines are abysmal, and the location is inconvenient for almost everyone.

While the lower bowl is legendary, the upper deck's vertiginous concrete steps and lack of handrails have caused fan injuries and sparked decades of safety debates.

Before its 2014 renovation, the exposed Vélodrome subjected fans to brutal Mistral winds, rain, and scorching sun with zero protection, making many matches an endurance test.

The new Wembley's running track-sized gap between the pitch and the first row of seats makes the atmosphere feel distant, a bizarre choice for a £798 million rebuild.

Built for $779 million for the 2014 Games, the venue sat underused in a subtropical resort town with no major local sports team, becoming a symbol of Olympic white elephants.

The House That Ruth Built was iconic, but its steel column supports created thousands of obstructed-view seats where fans watched the game through iron pillars for decades.

After the 2000 Olympics, the stadium was reconfigured for rectangular sports, leaving awkward seating angles and a cavernous bowl that rarely fills, undermining the atmosphere.

The former Formula 1 and concert venue suffered from cramped concourses, poor ingress-egress flow, and sight-line obstructions that left many ticket holders feeling cheated.

The retractable roof never worked properly, the tower wasn't finished until 1987, and the stadium's $1.5 billion debt wasn't paid off until 2006 — thirty years after the Games.

Baseball's most hated stadium features a dingy catwalks-and-ceiling dome where fly balls hit the roof, sight lines are abysmal, and the location is inconvenient for almost everyone.

While the lower bowl is legendary, the upper deck's vertiginous concrete steps and lack of handrails have caused fan injuries and sparked decades of safety debates.

Before its 2014 renovation, the exposed Vélodrome subjected fans to brutal Mistral winds, rain, and scorching sun with zero protection, making many matches an endurance test.

The new Wembley's running track-sized gap between the pitch and the first row of seats makes the atmosphere feel distant, a bizarre choice for a £798 million rebuild.

Built for $779 million for the 2014 Games, the venue sat underused in a subtropical resort town with no major local sports team, becoming a symbol of Olympic white elephants.

The House That Ruth Built was iconic, but its steel column supports created thousands of obstructed-view seats where fans watched the game through iron pillars for decades.

After the 2000 Olympics, the stadium was reconfigured for rectangular sports, leaving awkward seating angles and a cavernous bowl that rarely fills, undermining the atmosphere.

The former Formula 1 and concert venue suffered from cramped concourses, poor ingress-egress flow, and sight-line obstructions that left many ticket holders feeling cheated.