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Zaha Hadid will not quit New National Stadium Plans

Japan Architecture News - Jul 24, 2015 - 12:41   4473 views

Zaha Hadid will not quit New National Stadium Plans

Zaha Hadid image via Curbed.

Zaha Hadid, the architect whose plans for the National Stadium have been scrapped, hopes to remain involved in the planning for the centerpiece for the 2020 Olympics, the Japan Sport Council said Thursday.

The council said Jim Heverin, a director of Hadid’s company, conveyed her wishes on a fact-finding visit to Japan following the cancellation. Last Friday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unceremoniously ripped up the plans for a building whose costs had soared without explanation, saying Japan would start again “from scratch.” There had been a surge in public criticism when the stadium’s projected construction costs rose to ¥252 billion from an initial estimate of ¥130 billion. Japan Sport Council (JSC) executive Keisuke Yoshio said Heverin, who traveled to Japan to find out what happened, expressed regret at the decision and said the company wanted to make use of the work it had done so far. Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Japan faces a ¥5.9 billion bill for the work done so far and contracts already signed.......Continue Reading

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