The price tag for 2020 Tokyo Olympic stadium is now a whopping $2.1 billion. That’s more than the stadiums for the past three summer Olympic stadiums combined. That’s pretty silly! So is the stadium’s new Photoshop meme. — kotaku.com
With the current estimated cost for Zaha Hadid 's stadium design clocking in at more than $2 billion (that's $700 million more than the initial estimate), a recent poll by Japanese news network NHK found that "81 percent of respondents say they disapprove of the plan to build the stadium without changing its design." Only 13 percent said that they approved.
Here are a few of the cheeky Japanese memes critically expressing their discontent with the pricey design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium:
By Twitter user @nickjil
By Twitter user @AKID_0831
By Twitter user @641236A
By Twitter user @nabe_chan_
By Twitter user @yuki_japantokyo
Head over to Kotaku for more memes.
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LOL
Priceless.
I wonder if all this hate is mostly because:
a. Zaha doesn't have a penis
b. Zaha is not Japanese?
c. The design costs too much and looks like a bedpan
But you're probably right, whenever there is disagreement it usually boils down to sexism and/or racism
Yes, because obviously all anyone is every thinking about is their penis or lack thereof, or how they can repress, or are being repressed by, other races.
Iiya, please stop thinking about penises so much...
hate? at least they have a sense of humor, something shoemaker and hadid could use.
it looks like a potty trainer, but a "parametric potty trainer"
Talking about penis...can someone please do a meme of Ron Jeremy pounding this thing...
thats how godzilla was born
now that the plan is scrapped, let's all urge zaha to use the design for actual toilets. seems a fitting outcome to this story.
I understand Zaha can swear like a trooper, with or without a peni, in more than one language. She certainly could design imaginative toilets!
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