Kengo Kuma’s vision echoes traditional temples and costs almost 100bn yen less than British-Iraqi architect’s ditched ideaJapan has chosen a scaled-down design for the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,five months after scrapping the initial design and construction method for being too costly. The unique model, by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, or will still cost 153bn yen (£825m) to design,build and maintain. The initial stadium proposal would have cost 252bn yen, making it the most expensive stadium ever built. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com