Tokyo will have to find a new signature venue for the 2020 Olympics. ArchDaily reports that Japan, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, announced today that it is ditching its plans to build an ...

In a petition with 14,279 supporters as of this morning, a group of Japanese architects led by Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki is calling on the Japan Sports Council to scrap Zaha ...

Zaha Hadid Architects and Japanese architecture ... which will be used to host events during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Hadid’s firm had initially won an international competition to design ...

Two months after Zaha ... project’s development. “What remains is a dull, slow form,” Isozaki wrote. “If the stadium gets built the way it is, Tokyo will surely be burdened with a gigantic white ...

“I’m not fighting Zaha. The competition for the stadium was very rigorous and we can’t overturn everything. But the design could be better.” Hadid is ... to the project brief’s seating ...

Zaha Hadid has hit out at the way both the Japanese authorities and architecture profession handled the Tokyo Olympic stadium job Hadid, whose designs were scrapped following a row over the cost of ...

TOKYO (AP) Zaha Hadid Architects, the company whose stadium design for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was chosen and later scrapped, says it is teaming up with major Japanese design and engineering ...

Kengo Kuma has rubbished claims by Zaha ... build in Tokyo for a national stadium". Kuma said he does not think Hadid's nationality contributed to the decision to drop her from the project.

Zaha's Moonsoon: An Interior in Japan is a case study of architect Hadid's first built project outside of the UK – the Moonsoon Bar and Restaurant in Sapporo, Japan, which was constructed in 1989.