The organization of the Olympic Games Tóquio2020 today deplored the death of the British architect of Iraqi origin Zaha Hadid, 65, author of the initial project for the Olympic Stadium of the Japanese capital.
“Hadid contributed to Tóquio’2020 project, with an innovative design for the Olympic stadium, “said the minister to the folder of the Olympic Games Tóquio’202, Toshiaki Endo.
architect Zaha Hadid, the first woman awarded the Pritzker prize, the highest distinction architecture, died Thursday in a hospital in Miami, in the United States, following a heart attack, days after you have bronchitis was diagnosed.
Toshiaki Endo regretted that the Hadid project for Olympic stadium has been canceled, ensuring, however, that the organizers of Jogos’2020 would like to thank all the work and commitment of Zaha Hadid.
last July, the Japanese government gave Hadid project, much criticized for its high cost – twice the budget -., and problems with its surroundings
the office of architects in which Zaha Hadid worked accused, however, Japan to have appropriate rights intellectual property of the project, and the very Zaha Hadid criticized the similarities between the new project, the Japanese Kengo Kuma, and the original.
Today, the Minister Toshiaki Endo assured that the Council of the Japan Sports “is working” to resolve the dispute it has with the Hadid architecture cabinet due to copyright the original stadium project . Olympic
Hadid was honored in 2004 with the Pritzker prize, known as the “Nobel of Architecture”, which annually distinguishes an architect who best meets the principles set out by the founder of classical architecture, Vitruvius: strength, beauty and functionality.
It was also the first woman to receive the Royal Medal for Architecture in 2015, after Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry and Oscar Niemeyer.
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