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2020

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  09.02.2020 New stadium: Here comes Tokyo's timber stadium

  Although we didn't manage to get inside during our visit to Tokyo, finally the new national stadium joins StadiumDB as one of the largest candidates to become Stadium of the Year.

2019

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  22.11.2019 Tokyo: Olympic Stadium ready, opening soon

  Japan Sport Council has announced the delivery of Japan's new national stadium in Tokyo. After handover on November 30 the venue will begin preparing for its opening events in December and January.

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  18.05.2019 Tokyo 2020: Olympic Stadium's roof complete

  On Friday the Japan Sports Council confirmed delivery of the most challenging part of the new National Olympic Stadium. Its roof, using a unique mix of steel and timber, is the largest such structure to top any stadium worldwide.

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  07.01.2019 Tokyo 2020: Olympic Stadium on time

  Delivery of the new national stadium in Tokyo is going as planned initially, though a slight price increase was confirmed. By this time next year official opening will be behind us.

2018

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  12.10.2018 Tokyo: Opening event confirmed for Olympic Stadium

  Tokyo’s new National Stadium, the main venue of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, was set Thursday as the venue for next season’s Emperor’s Cup final.

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  10.07.2018 Tokyo 2020: Kengo Kuma on National Olympic Stadium

  As installation of the roof and wooden facades progresses at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics stadium, Kengo Kuma mentions his greatest sport project in an interview with designboom.com.

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  07.05.2018 Japan: Football venues of Tokyo 2020 confirmed

  Seven stadiums altogether, five of them the same as during the 2002 World Cup. Japan will only see one purpose-built stadium used during the Olympics, of course the new national one.

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  12.01.2018 Tokyo: Great progress for 2020 Olympics

  After years of delays the Japanese Olympic Stadium if growing as planned, expected for timely delivery. What was delivered over the past 12 months is truly impressive!

2017

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  11.10.2017 Tokyo: Olympic Stadium worker committed suicide due to overwork

  Though the tragedy occurred in March, only now we have confirmation that 23-year-old worker's suicide was caused by extreme overwork, even if indirectly.

2016

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  28.11.2016 Tokyo: Olympic Stadium groundbreaking on Dec 11

  All formalities should be done by Friday and on December 11 works can officially begin on Japan’s new National Stadium. It will be ready less than 8 months ahead of the 2020 Olympics.

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  30.09.2016 Tokyo 2020: Olympic Stadium approved for construction

  The Japanese government greenlighted the final design and budget for National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. The concept saw cost-cutting efforts, but is only slightly cheaper.

2015

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  18.11.2015 Tokyo: Olympic Stadium works to start as late as 2017

  Construction work on the stadium being built for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo has been pushed back to 2017, Japanese Government officials announced this week.

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  20.09.2015 Tokyo: Hadid withdraws from Olympic Stadium race

  Architect Zaha Hadid has abandoned her attempt to enter a new race to build a new stadium in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, her office said Friday.

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  20.08.2015 Tokyo: Officials misled the public and IOC?

  Just a month after the criticised project was scrapped it surfaced that officials were aware of skyrocketing price even before Tokyo’s selection as 2020 Olympics host.

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  17.07.2015 Tokyo: Japan scraps Olympic Stadium design!

  Despite approving the horrendous budget of ¥252 billion, government in Tokyo decided to finally abandon the current stadium design for 2020 Olympics.

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  08.07.2015 Tokyo: Who will pay for this? Japanese want changes

  8 out of 10 citizens want the stadium design for Tokyo 2020 Olympics changed. Finding money for the world’s most expensive stadium may indeed prove difficult.

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  29.06.2015 Tokyo: Skyrocketing price for Olympic Stadium confirmed

  It raised some eyebrows when revealed unofficially. Now it’s confirmed: Olympic Stadium in Tokyo will cost ¥252 billion and become the world’s most expensive stadium. By far!

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  12.06.2015 Tokyo: Final stadium design in July?

  It’s the final phase of cost-cutting measures in Tokyo. In early July Zaha Hadid should sign the contract for complete documentation of the new 2020 Olympic Stadium. No change of architects is possible.

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  09.06.2015 Tokyo: Olympic Stadium debate heated again

  Price tag speculations, public argument about funding sources, now even unconfirmed revelations about supposed design change. All that in just days as Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium raises questions.

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  05.03.2015 New construction: Tokyo giant crumbles, successor to rise

  Gradual demolition of Japan’s old national stadium has been ongoing for weeks, while first elements of the new one should arrive in autumn.