Even buildings as remarkable as Mr. Kikutake’s Miyakonojo Civic Center, with its segmented roof arched like a baby stroller, fell prey. Similarly, Japan’s shrinking population has stimulated the ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Kenzo Tange’s modernist gymnasium design, originally a Kagawa Prefecture facility, dubbed the ...

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 ...

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.

Kenzo Tange, the Japanese architect who converted the core of a barren Hiroshima into a tranquil peace park in the 1940s and 1950s, died Tuesday at his home in Tokyo. He was 91. Although he designed ...

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 ...