Kenzo Tange hardly could have encountered a more difficult site for his first tall American building than the one he faced in Chicago at the corner of Grand Avenue and State Street. Still, the grand ...

Kenzo Tange, whose reconciliation of traditional Japanese architecture with modernity shaped Japan’s rise from the ashes of World War II, died of heart failure at his Tokyo home Tuesday. He was 91.

In February, it was announced that Kenzo Tange’s Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium in Takamatsu, Japan, will be demolished. Tange designed the structure in 1964. The structure had hosted local sporting ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — The Yoyogi National Stadium by ...

With everything from sneakers and streetwear to Noguchi lamps and Julian Opie works, his CLTV Collection captures how younger Japanese collectors are redefining contemporary collecting culture. The ...

Japan`s most famous living architect, Kenzo Tange, has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. It carries a cash grant of $100,000 and will be formally presented to Tange in ceremonies at the ...

Kenzo Tange’s modernist gymnasium design, originally a Kagawa Prefecture facility, dubbed the 'Ship Gymnasium' for its curved, vessel-like form, has been under threat since 2023, when the local ...

515 North State Street in Chicago is a modernist skyscraper by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, who won the Pritzker Prize in 1987. Built in 1990 as the American Medical Association Building, it blends ...

Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi Olympic Arena from Yoyogi GSD on Vimeo. Special thanks to Emmet Truxes, from Harvard GSD, for sharing this animated video of Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi Olympic Arena with us. Check out ...

During World War II, American firebombing reduced some 40% of Japan’s total urban area to rubble. From this horrifying destruction came a historic burst of reconstruction. It was an extraordinary ...

Kenzo Tange, architect of some of the twentieth century's most beautiful structures, was a mentor to a generation of groundbreaking Japanese designers. Tange saw in the ashes of the Second World War a ...