Dive Brief:

• A Japanese architect has gone public with an assertion that the design that Zaha Hadid did for the 2020 Olympics stadium in Tokyo is long on style at the cost of being short on safety for the retractable roof.
• Takashi Moriyama told the Japan Times that Hadid and her team specified a material for the roof that can catch fire and the team should have examined her specifications because of what he said is her stubbornness.
• The design and size for the 80,000-seat stadium in the chosen location offended some architects enough that they conducted a public petition campaign against them.

Dive Insight:

A panel set up by the Japan Sport Council to review Hadid's design concluded she had done a great job and gave its blessing in May. The new stadium is supposed to replace National Stadium and will be bigger.