Where the Tokyo Olympic venues are 8 new permanent Olympic venues Iconic and unique venues Yoyogi National Gymnasium. ... It is the work of world-renowned architect Kenzo Tange, ...

Mariko Nagai walked outside Yoyogi National Stadium - the late-architect Kenzo Tange’s masterpiece from Tokyo’s 1964 Olympics - and pictured the city in that era.

TOKYO (AP) — The Yoyogi National Stadium by Kenzo Tange was the elegant symbol of Tokyo's 1964 Summer Olympics, a combination of modern technique and Japanese tradition.

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.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the Olympics’s first postponement: Tokyo 2020, its name unchanged, will now take place in July 2021 if it takes place at all.Yet all around the Japanese ...

Kenzo Tange, 91, a prize-winning architect celebrated for the beauty of his structures, including stadiums for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, died of a heart ailment March 22 at his home in Tokyo. Mr ...

Paul and Kenzo Tange both designed the Olympic aquatic buildings in Tokyo, nearly 50 years apart.Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson on motherhood and sports: After becoming a mother in 2019, Olympic ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -When Paul Noritaka Tange won the rights to design the Aquatics Centre for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, one of the first things he did was to visit the grave of his father: the ...

TOKYO — The Yoyogi National Stadium by Kenzo Tange was the elegant symbol of Tokyo’s 1964 Summer Olympics, a combination of modern technique and Japanese tradition. Tange was awarded the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Mariko Nagai walked outside Yoyogi National Stadium — the late-architect Kenzo Tange's masterpiece from Tokyo's 1964 Olympics — and pictured the city in that era. She was ...