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Architect Kengo Kuma denies plagiarising Zaha Hadid and defends his design. 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games organisers are “refusing” to pay the British architect for her designs unless she gives up the copyright and signs a ‘gagging order’.
The scheme design by Conran and Partners, located on the south-west edge of the city alongside the Tama River, comprises a total of 400,000 sqm of retail, office, leisure and residential building, as well as a new city park.
Design: Apollo architects & associates. The site is located at Aoyama in Minato ward, which is an area residential and commercial uses are mixed in Tokyo. The client couple sought to build a housing complex on the back lot of a dead end street, and earn their livings by renting a part of it.
Design: Apollo architects & associates. The site is located in a quiet residential area. The client is a couple who both work at a university. Their request was to keep two independent and equal private dens: an open living environment but with privacy.
Zaha Hadid Architects unable to secure a construction company in its consortium and therefore announce that they are unable to enter this architecture 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.”
New National Stadium of Japan in Tokyo: sports arena building in Tokyo – design by Zaha Hadid Architects – New National Stadium of Japan building: arena
Tokyo is the capital of Japan and the center of the greater Tokyo area. The city is in the region on the southeastern side of the main island and is the most populous metropolitan area in the world.
A House is a compact private residence is nestled within the dense expanse of Tokyo, in Nishi-Azabu—a neighborhood characterized by narrow streets and traditional low-rise houses—which borders a park heavily visited during the spring, when the city’s cherry trees begin to bloom.
This house, with a studio for a husband who is a fashion photographer, is located in an area with flooding risks from torrential rains. Therefore, the entrance level is raised by 800 mm.
The client’s family owns this land in this residential district over 100 years. Their successive houses have always been attractive in this town.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Tadao Ando praised the fluidity and innovation of the design: “The entry’s dynamic and futuristic design embodies the messages Japan would like to convey to the rest of the world.”
However a petition to oppose construction is running, claiming the building is too large and too expensive…would fell many trees and spoil the nice human scale.
Nine storey commercial building design by Jun Sakaguchi Architect – reminiscent of a spine, a vertebral column formed from concrete, each floor as a vertebra. Crowned with a penthouse rising above the 31m height limit but within the set-back line, the building glows like finely cut jewellery.
The Leaf chapel design by Klein Dytham architecture is within the grounds of the Risonare hotel resort in Kobuchizawa. The building mimics two leaves that have fallen to the ground, one on top of the other. Thousands of holes in the leaves form the delicate image of a bridal veil.
