Tokyo Olympic stadium cut back

Japan chose a scaled-down design Tuesday for the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, five months after scrapping the initial design and construction plan for being too costly. …

New: 153 billion yen ($1.23 billion)

Old: 252 billion yen ($2.08 billion)

NBC – Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium design chosen (renderings)

This combination of artist renderings provided by the Japan Sports Council shows the original design by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, bottom, of the new stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics selected on Nov. 16, 2012 but was later scrapped due to controversy over its cost and scale, and the newly selected plan, top, announced by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. (The Japan Sports Council via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
This combination of artist renderings provided by the Japan Sports Council shows the original design by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, bottom, of the new stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics selected on Nov. 16, 2012 but was later scrapped due to controversy over its cost and scale, and the newly selected plan, top, announced by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. (The Japan Sports Council via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

The original stadium proposal would have been the most expensive stadium ever built.

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