Zaha Hadid Withdraws From Competition to Design Tokyo Olympic Stadium

Two months after her design for a 2020 Olympic stadium in Tokyo was scrapped by the government because of spiraling costs, the prizewinning architect Zaha Hadid has taken herself out of the running for the project’s next round of competition.

“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,” a spokesman for Zaha Hadid Architects in London said in a statement on Friday, The Guardian newspaper reported.

The office of Ms. Hadid, 64, an Iraqi-British architect who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, said it had been unable to find…