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Zaha Hadid Quits Tokyo Olympic Stadium Competition

Zaha Hadid Quits Tokyo Olympic Stadium Competition

Miriam Sitz
September 18, 2015
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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
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Zaha Hadid Architects Seeks to Set Record Straight About Tokyo Stadium Ouster

Anna Fixsen
July 28, 2015
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"Our warning was not heeded" the firm says. Japanese officials are finding out that breaking up is hard to do, especially with Zaha Hadid. Today the starchitect's London-based firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) issued a 1,440 word statement to "set the record straight" regarding its ouster from the National Stadium design in Tokyo. The rebuttal comes after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced July 17 that the stadium design would "start over from zero" after contending with costs soaring upwards of $2 billion, which many attributed to ZHA's bombastic plan.ZHA begs to differ.In the statement, the firm asserts that its
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KURO Building

December 16, 2014
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Site size: 806 square feet Project size: 2,314 square feet Program: The client requested a mixed-use building containing retail on the ground floor and living space above. Location: A shopping street in downtown Tokyo that had been in decline is now undergoing a rapid transformation, with numerous building renovation and infrastructure projects under way, including widening the sidewalk. Solution: The four-story building contains a noodle shop on the ground floor, the client's residence on the second floor, and a pair of duplex two-bedroom rental units on the third and fourth floors. The architects sought to create a 'moderate conspicuousness' for
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Go Hasegawa and Associates

Finding inspiration in quirky, leftover urban sites, an architect makes the job of fitting in a defiant act of design.
Naomi Pollock, FAIA
December 16, 2014
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Tokyo may be among the world’s largest cities, but it has some of the smallest buildings. At critical nodes such as Roppongi and Shinjuku, the city has plenty of skyscrapers and hulking commercial complexes, yet its character is mostly defined by dense, low-scale neighborhoods where the majority of buildings are no more than five stories high.


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Louis Vuitton Matsuya Ginza Facade

Architect Jun Aoki's new facade for Louis Vuitton in Tokyo's Ginza district is a glowing tour de force that sets the shop apart from the Matsuya Department Store that houses it.
Naomi Pollock, FAIA
November 15, 2014
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Despite Japan's energy belt-tightening, triggered by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake of 2011, dazzling lighting effects still bedeck most luxury boutiques in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district.


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