OlympicTalk · Sep 18, 2015
Original Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium company abandons revised bid
Tokyo 2020 Olympic StadiumThe company whose Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium “bicycle helmet” design was scrapped in July, after its predicted cost nearly doubled to a record $2 billion, withdrew its revised stadium bid.
“Nikken Sekkei and Zaha Hadid Architects have not been able to secure a construction company in its consortium and therefore announce that they are unable to enter the competition,” it said in a press release Friday. “It is disappointing that the two years of work and investment in the existing design for a new National Stadium for Japan cannot be further developed to meet the new brief through the new design competition.”