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Continuing Education: The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

Italy

February 5, 2026

Athletes and spectators will see little ground-up construction, but planners have carefully considered the afterlife of the Winter Games and its venues.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘A Grand Leap: The Innsbruck Ski Jump’

RECORD Editors

January 19, 2026

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Ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, revisit the Zaha Hadid–designed Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck, Austria, which served as host city for the games in 1964 and 1975.

In Focus

Paris Prepares for the 2024 Summer Olympics With a Strategic Mix of New Construction and Renovation

Paris

Andrew Ayers

July 8, 2024

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With only two purpose-built structures and a heavy reliance on existing venues, this year's games will be the least architectural—in terms of new construction—in decades.

Commentary: Cheating at the Olympics?

Joseph Giovannini

July 22, 2021

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As the Tokyo Games begin, remember Zaha Hadid’s winning design for the stadium that was never built.

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SOM Unveils 2026 Olympic Village for Milan-Cortina

Bridget Goldberg

July 19, 2021

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SOM has released images for its Olympic Village for the 2026 winter Olympics in Milan, as part of the winning master plan by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

Kengo Kuma to Design Tokyo Olympic Stadium

Officials selected Kuma's plan for a wood and steel structure over a design by Toyo Ito.

Miriam Sitz

December 22, 2015

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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.

Renderings Released for New 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium

The Japan Sport Council has revealed two proposed designs for the national stadium.

Miriam Sitz

December 14, 2015

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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.

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

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

Zaha Hadid's $2 Billion Tokyo Stadium Design Cancelled

Anna Fixsen

July 17, 2015

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After nearly three years of fierce criticism, revisions, budget cuts, and soaring costs, plans for a Zaha Hadid-designed Olympic stadium in Tokyo—an 80,000-seat stingray-like arena set to rise 20 stories in the city’s heart—has been cancelled.