Tokyo 2020; Petition to reconsider Zaha Hadid’s Tokyo Olympic Stadium

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Though it seemed a compromise was met last October, when Japan’s minister of education, Hakubun Shimomura announced plans to reduce the cost and scale of the Zaha Hadid-designed Tokyo Olympic Stadium, the debate rages on.

Pritzker laureates Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki have launched an online petition to “defend the ginko tree-lined landscape of blue sky and Jingu Outer Gardens” from the construction of Hadid’s “oversized” stadium.

Read full article (Archdaily)

 

View the petition on Change.org

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London 2012; Aquatics Centre reopens


 


 
More info (BBC)

London 2012; Transformation Aquatics Centre (2)

London 2012; Transformation Aquatics Centre

The transformation of the Aquatics Centre is almost finished. Two nice pictures from @waypointtweet on Twitter: