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UK-based Zaha Hadid Architects' futuristic design for the
showpiece venue of the 2020 Games was selected in an
international competition in 2012, but the project was scrapped
after the estimated cost ballooned to over $2 billion, nearly
twice the original figure.
The architects said they had been unable to secure a
construction company in their consortium and were unable to
enter the new design 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," ZHA said in a statement on Friday.
(Reporting by Ian Ransom in Melbourne; Editing by Amlan
Chakraborty)
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