When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scrapped Zaha Hadid’s design for the new National Stadium on July 17 last year, many feared the venue might not be completed in time to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Twelve months on, despite construction still waiting to start ...
One of the final works of Zaha Hadid, the acclaimed architect who died suddenly last month, will be posthumously inaugurated in Italy on Monday. Inspired by an oyster, the new maritime terminal at the southern port of Salerno features a hard shell above a ...
The announcement of the death of internationally renowned Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, whose works included the controversial original design for the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics — later scrapped by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — came as a shock to ...
Internationally renowned Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, whose designs included the London Aquatics Centre used in the 2012 summer Olympics, has died aged 65, her company said on Thursday. “It is with great sadness that Zaha Hadid Architects have confirmed that Dame Zaha Hadid died ...
When a fresh design for the new National Stadium was chosen last month, many believed it would finally put an end to months of chaos over its construction. They were wrong. Amid allegations that the latest design is “remarkably similar” to the original plan ...
Kengo Kuma, whose flatter, less expensive design will be used for the Olympic Games’ main venue, said his plan and Hadid’s differed in concept and cost.
U.K.-based Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) also refused to sign another new clause to not "provide information or comment on the project."
Media literacy means understanding that objective reality is impossible to comprehend, and that the best you can do to make sense of the world is to know how to interpret signals. Part of that process is identifying what’s at stake: Newspapers and broadcasters have ...
The London-based architect group that won the first contest to redesign the National Stadium for the 2020 Olympic Games said Wednesday it is investigating similarities between its ill-fated design and design A, the winner of the second contest. Architect Kengo Kuma’s team was declared ...
Architect Zaha Hadid, whose design for the new National Stadium was scrapped, alleges collusion to kill off her project.
Architect Zaha Hadid, whose stadium design for the Tokyo Olympics was scrapped over its ballooning costs, won’t compete in the rematch because she can’t find a contractor.
Zaha Hadid Architects is teaming up with major Japanese design and engineering company Nikken Sekkei in a bid to regain the project to build the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
