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“Naniwo imasara gutaguta yuutennen” (“Why are you complaining now!!” ) That’s my true feeling described in Osaka dialect. Most Japanese citizens are aware about the new national stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic is becoming a rather controversial topic. Many people disagree with the idea and say things like “it’s too expensive to make”, “it’s too big” or “it’s difficult to make” on TV shows.
My feeling about this is that I completely disagree. The architects who are unhappy with the proposal, they need to realize that the design has already been decided by the open competition and The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympics have announced that we will make it.
So, stop bickering. Rather, we think forward about how to make it with sensible budgeting.
In car design world; yes that is my current job, the design competition is very popular.
Also, it’s not rare that after choosing winners sketch, a lot of issues are occur in terms of the cost being too high and it’s difficult to make it, then we re-start new design and in worst cases, we have to stop the development altogether.
But since the new national Olympic stadium issue is different from the car design competition. It is difficult to completely understand and sympathize.
It’s easy to say that it’s open competition and The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic has already announced that we will make it. People around world has seen the final sketch already. Regrettably to say, no one became a leader who has power to get the final say.
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In fact, current ‘low budget’ sketches look tasteless and very boring. In addition, Zaha Hadid’s first creative sketch isn’t even incorporated in the second design. It makes no sense to me.
This blog is easy to understand about how poor the current design is
Kenzo Tange who designed the Yoyogi gymnasium at the time of the Tokyo Olympic in 1964 went for direct negotiations to Kakuei Tanaka who was the Minister of Finance in those days and he tried to get an additional budget.
Anywho, I think only thing The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic should do is to ask Zaha Hadid to help and think about ways to keep the
original idea, because they chose her idea. Of course, not let the noise get into her head.
The modern artist -Takashi Murakami quoted “ Creating future art needs talent , insanity and money” and I totally agree with his opinion.
Takashi Murakami’s facebook page
日本語版
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「なにを今更グタグタゆーてんねん」自分の気持ちを大阪弁でいうとこんな感じです。日本の皆さんはご存知だとは思いますが、最近日本のメディアでは２０２０年に東京オリンピックのメインスタジアムの「新国立競技場」のデザインが「高すぎる」「大きすぎる」「作るのが困難」やらいろいろ方面からいろんな有識者があれこれ難癖つけて物議を醸しています。
私はぐだぐだ言ってる日本の某建築家に「もうデザインをコンペで選んで世界に向けてこれ作りまっせって言っちゃてるんだから文句言ってないでどうやったら作れるかとかどうやったらお金集められるかとか前向きに考えろと」
私の仕事であるカーデザインの世界ではデザインコンペは日常茶飯事です。しかも選んだ後にコストが高すぎるだの構造的に作れないなどの問題が出るのもカーデザインあるあるの一つです。社内コンペでこんな問題が起きてデザイン仕切り直しとか車の開発をストップする何てこともザラにあります。でもこれは今回の国立競技場とは違う点もあります。
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それはもうこれで作りますって発表しちゃってるところ。公開コンペで世界に向けて最終イメージスケッチを提示しちゃってます。残念なのは大変だけどなんとか作ってやろうぜ！！っていうリーダーシップを取れる人がいないこと。いろんな人の意見なんか聞いてると中途半端なものしか出来ないよ。いまの妥協案なんてザハのオリジナルの魅力はゼロだね。
これ面白いです（妥協案についての解説）
１９６４年の東京オリンピックの時に代々木体育館を設計した丹下健三氏は当時大蔵大臣だった田中角栄のところに直談判に行き、追加の予算をもらってきたそうだ。
とにかくこれからやるべきことはザハ案を選んだんだから彼女に協力してもらって修正入れるところは入れつつも最初のイメージをどうやったら守れるかという議論をして欲しいと思う。もちろん外野の声は一切無視で。
現代美術家の村上隆もこの問題で「未来を創る芸術には才能と狂気と金が必要なんだ！」言っていたがまさにその通りだと思う。
村上隆 facebookページ
