"The Toyota Stadium was originally
designed to
accommodate 60,000 spectators as it was chosen to be one of the fifteen
cities for the Japan World-Cup Semi-Final Game. Later as Japan and
South Korea cosponsored the World-Cup, the possible venues were reduced
to ten cities, Toyota City in Aichi Prefecture was left out of the
selection, despite the fact that it has the third largest population
density. As a result,
the design that was already in process, was fundamentally
reviewed to accommodate a number of people reduced down to 45,000. In
order to enable a multifunctional usage of the facility, a movable roof
became an additional condition of the new design."
2006
Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates
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