Rafael Viñoly Architects was first selected to design the structure through Japan’s first international design competition facilitated by Kenzo Tange, the architect of Tokyo’s City Hall and ...

the designer of the New National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But he never forgot the stunning Yoyogi stadium, designed by famed architect Kenzo Tange (1913-2005), which inspired him.

Kenzo Tange's 1960 Tokyo Bay Plan reflected the zeitgeist of a society enamored by rapid technological advancement and post-war optimism. Buckminster Fuller's 1959 dome concept over Manhattan was ...

The cultural center, designed by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Kenzo Tange (1913-2005), is a two-story concrete structure. The motif of the building is said to be the mountains of the ...