“He is not dreaming,” the Chicago Tribune confirmed in 1956 after an 87-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright declared that he could build a mile high skyscraper near the city’s Adler Planetarium.
In December, Japanese officials announced their selection of Kengo Kuma as the architect for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Stadium. Kuma spoke to RECORD'scorrespondent in Tokyo, Naomi Pollock, about the project.
Government officials in Japan have selected Kengo Kuma’s plan for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium. The architect submitted the winning proposal along with construction and support firms Taisei Corp. and Azusa Sekkei Co.
The Japan Sport Council has revealed two new designs for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic stadium. The council did not identify the architects' offices behind the proposals, which are being referred to as A and B, but plans to select the winner this month.
ZHA and Nikken Sekkei team could not secure a construction company. Two months after Zaha Hadid’s $2 billion design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo was scrapped, the architect announced her firm will no longer participate in the competition for a new design. “It is disappointing,” Zaha Hadid Architects wrote in a statement released today, “that the two years of work and investment in the existing design for a new National Stadium for Japan cannot be further developed to meet the new brief through the new design competition.”Earlier this month, Hadid’s firm partnered with Japanese architecture and engineering firm