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December 22, 2015 03:02 pm GMT
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Japan unveils final stadium design for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
The 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be held in Tokyo, finally has a new National Stadium design after Zaha Hadid's original alien-spaceship plans were scrapped over soaring construction costs and public criticism.
Hadid's futuristic stadium was dumped after its estimated cost ballooned from 130 billion yen ($1.07 billion USD) to almost 252 billion yen ($2.08 billion USD).
The new National Stadium design, unveiled by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is far more modest and will cost about 154 billion yen ($1.26 billion USD), putting the project back in line with the original budget.
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