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He is best known for designing the Tokyo Olympic Stadium for the 2020 Games and the V&A Dundee Museum in Scotland. For EXPO 2025, he is also the architect behind the pavilions of Portugal and Qatar.
Tokyo, host of the 2020 Summer Olympics, is bucking the one-upmanship trend by constructing a less glitzy stadium that’s true to Japan’s modest, cultural ideals.
Top Japanese architects have blasted the design of Zaha Hadid’s proposed National Stadium in Tokyo, claiming the centrepiece of the 2020 Olympics is too big. Sou Fujimoto, the architect behind this ...
The pavilion is designed to be taken apart and reassembled elsewhere Kengo Kuma also designed the Japan National Stadium for the global event, with a lattice of timber as its defining feature.
TOKYO (KABC) -- Billions of people watch the Olympics. It's where stars are born. And usually, the first star of the games is not a person but where the opening ceremony takes place. This year it ...
Japan's Tokyo Olympic minister Shunichi Suzuki, center, answer for reporter's question after inspect of a construction site of new national stadium in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Tokyo's main ...
As Japan’s capital embarks on a $1.7 billion project to build a new Olympic stadium for the 2020 Games, concerns about the venue’s cost and size are mounting.
Work to demolish Tokyo's Olympic stadium continued Thursday with heavy machinery ripping down stands where spectators once sat and watched the 1964 Summer Games.
TOKYO — Author Haruki Murakami says he’s strongly opposed to the redevelopment of a historic and beloved Tokyo park district that would remove his favorite jogging path and tear down the ...
This year's Olympic stadium is more than just an arena - it's a message that architect Kengo Kuma is sending the world. 24/7 Live Philadelphia Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware Welcome, Mickey ...