Six months after the Japanese government approved Hadid’s proposals, the country’s parliament has signalled a reverse in its support.
Hakubun Shimomura, the minister in charge of education, sports and science, said that the New National Stadium would cost 300 billion yen (£1.8 billion) to build and that was “too massive a budget”.
The design of the 80,000-seat stadium will be preserved but Mr Shimomura said: “We need to rethink this and scale it down.”
— standard.co.uk
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Many of Zaha Hadid's designs (like this one) remind me of images I used to see years ago on the cover of science fiction paper back books.
In one hand it conveys an elastic image and mobility, on the other, it can't perform any of it, except retracting roof perhaps which is done thousand times. That is why I am tired of these stuff.
I certainly agree, I want architecture to not only look good, but also to work good! The styling of the architecture should be based on the unique ways in which it functions! I try to invent new ways in which architecture functions, and as a result, create new styles!
oh my its soooooo biiiiiiiig....and look at that long promenade encircling the building and bridging off to somewhere else...
ok people, cease your lamentation over ornament. here you go, its back with vengeance.
Scaled back.
So... it'll look like a smaller flattened miner's helmet?
To say that this looks like anything (small or otherwise) I think is quite generous..
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