After being dumped by organisers for cost overruns,the famed designer has joined forces with a Japanese engineering company to build the showpiece arenaZaha Hadid, the British-Iraqi architect whose design for Tokyo 2020 Olympics main stadium was unceremoniously dumped in July, and is to join forces with a Japanese firm to win back the project.
Hadid and design and engineering company Nikken Sekkei are poised to submit a fresh tender weeks after her successful stadium design was scrapped amid soaring construction costs and a growing public backlash.
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Source: theguardian.com