Sunday 26 July 2015

Keeping To An Olympics Theme,

the competition-winning National Stadium designed for the 2020 Olympics,


by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) will be restarted from scratch, the structure has been criticised for everything from its mounting construction costs to its design that arguably clashes with the surrounding historic portions of the city and violates local height limits, after years of growing issues and complaints, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe finally announced a change of course, 'we have decided to go back to the start the Tokyo Olympics-Paralympics stadium plan, and start over from zero, I have been listening to the voices of the people for about a month now, thinking about the possibility of a review,' intended to be a sports centre to last a century, the price tag has repeatedly climbed beyond original estimates, recently reaching a reported $2,000,000,000, in part due to expensive materials but also the complex shape,

whether the 80,000-seat stadium will now be designed by another firm or simply restarted by Zaha Hadid is unclear as yet, but 7 years after she won the competition for this concept one might hope they will give her another chance to cut costs or come up with an alternative, so architects and designers out there submit your designs quick!


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