Last year, Kengo Kuma was selected as the winner of Japan National Stadium Competition, beating Toyo Ito and Zaha Hadid. The jury had selected Kuma's proposal for being ''a less-costly'' and ''greenery-rich plan''. The architect's winning-design features a roof made of wood and steel for a design that draws on traditional Japanese architecture. Now, the construction works began on the site of Tokyo Stadium and the project is expected to be completed in November 2019. 

Tokyo has held a groundbreaking ceremony for a $1.5bn (£1.2bn) national stadium that will host the 2020 Olympic Games.

The prime minister, Shinzo Abe, Tokyo’s governor, Yuriko Koike, and other dignitaries attended the event on Sunday at the site of the demolished national stadium that was used during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. They launched the construction of the stadium by putting their hands on a glass sphere that rotated through pastels of the colours of the Olympic logo......Continue Reading

Top image: New stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Image by Uncredited/AP

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