British architect wins design contest for Japan's new national stadium
Local Japanese News In English
Zaha Hadid, best known in the UK for the London 2012 Aquatics Centre, the architectural centrepiece of the summer games, has taken first place in a competition to design the new Tokyo National Stadium. (guardian.co.uk)
Source: News On Japan
The Japanese are a very honorable people so how would they take to something like this, why not one of the Japanese architects instead? Maybe they wanted a more 'Western' influence in the design.
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Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born British architect who broke international barriers, has died in Miami
Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the notable Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, died of a heart attack Thursday in a Miami hospital, according to the Associated Press and BBC. She was 65. Ref. USAToday.