Zaha Hadid presents fresh pitch for Tokyo Olympic Stadium

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last month scrapped the design as too expensive as costs reached an estimated $2bn – but the UK-Iraqi architect’s firm has now put together a fresh entry to the design competition that includes a video (below) and a 91 page report  addressing some of the issues surrounding the decision to reject the proposal.

Hadid’s firm said the design could be tweaked to lower costs and blamed the rising price tag on local construction fees. She suggested introducing greater competition among contractors and deemed starting over from scratch an “unnecessary risk.”

View the full report on designMENA here.