Zaha Hadid Architects' designs for Japan's national stadium

Critics say Olympic proposal is too big and costly

Zaha Hadid Architects has admitted it has made changes to its design for the stadium that will be the centrepiece of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

The firm has faced hostility in Japan with critics complaining that the proposed 80,000-seat stadium is too big, too costly and clashes with Tokyo’s urban planning.

At the weekend, 500 protestors marched around the existing National Stadium to demonstrate over plans to replace it with Hadid’s proposal while leading Japanese architects led by Fumihiko Maki have called for Hadid’s design to be scaled down and more sustainable.

But a spokesman for the practice said the the design had been “refined to optimise the investment and make the stadium even more efficient, user-focused, adaptable and sustainable”....Continue Reading

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