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My 2020 Olympic stadium design is different, says architect

Kengo Kuma, the architect of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics stadium, on Friday (January 15) strongly rejected accusations that he copied the design by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. A futuristic design proposed by architect Hadid was originally chosen in an international contest to build the centrepiece stadium, but it was dropped last year due to ballooning costs. A design by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma with a price tag of 149 billion yen ($1.27 billion), as opposed […]