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 ...

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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 ...

He has served in key roles, including director at Multi-Systems Limited (1984 to date), architect at Kenzo Tange's Office in Tokyo, Japan (1981), team member at Benna Associates/Kenzo Tange and ...

Published the same year that Kenzo Tange’s Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was completed, the plans weren’t taken seriously, though Shirai was recognized for the design decades later when he won ...

Japanese architect Kenzo Tange; Hungarian Erno Goldfinger; London-born Denys Lasdun; Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill; and ...

But he never forgot the stunning Yoyogi stadium, designed by famed architect Kenzo Tange (1913-2005), which inspired him. “The architecture reconciles the East and the West by linking Japanese ...

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 ...