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  • "We cannot save all we build" says commenter

    In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the announcement that Kenzo Tange's modernist gymnasium is set to be demolished. More

    Rupert Bickersteth | 1 March 2023 | Leave a comment
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    Dezeen Agenda features plans to demolish Kenzo Tange's modernist gymnasium in Japan

    The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the planned demolition of the Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium in Japan. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More

    Saudatu Bah | 28 February 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Kenzo Tange's modernist gymnasium set to be demolished

    The demolition of the Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium in Japan by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Kenzo Tange has been announced, sparking a petition to save it. More

    Lizzie Crook | 21 February 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Kenzo Tange's Kuwait Embassy "looks like a person carrying two water buckets" says YouTuber Martin van der Linden

    In his second video selection for Virtual Design Festival, Martin van der Linden explains the metabolist characteristics of Kenzo Tange's Kuwait Embassy, which the video blogger describes as one of his favourite buildings in Tokyo. More

    Benedict Hobson | 17 April 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs film sets influenced by metabolist architecture

    The "hellish and beautiful" architecture of Wes Anderson's new film Isle of Dogs takes its cues from the work of Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, says production designer Paul Harrod. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 28 March 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Blade Runner-style photographs capture Tokyo's infrastructure

    Australian photographer Tom Blachford waited until night to capture these neon-tinted photographs of Tokyo's metabolist buildings, which he says could have been built in a "distant future". More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 26 January 2018 | 14 comments
  • Japanese houses by Kenzo Tange, Toyo Ito and Atelier Bow-Wow showcased in MAXXI exhibition

    The house Kenzo Tange designed for himself, a U-shaped residence by Toyo Ito and Atelier Bow-Wow's house-cum-studio are all on show as part of an exhibition about Japan's post-war houses at the MAXXI museum in Rome. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 11 January 2017 | 2 comments
  • Edmund Sumner photographs Kenzo Tange's "brutal classic" St Mary's Cathedral

    Swooping steel-clad walls support the cross-shaped roof window of Kenzo Tange's 1960s St Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo, documented in these new images by architecture photographer Edmund Sumner (+ slideshow). More

    Eleanor Gibson | 18 July 2016 | 6 comments
  • Nendo adds reflective surfaces to offices and cafe in Kenzo Tange's Tokyo arts centre

    Japanese design studio Nendo has completed a set of mirrored interiors for a cafe and office in Tokyo's Kenzo Tange-designed Sogetsu Kaikan building (+ slideshow). More

    Emma Tucker | 10 November 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Google Japan pays tribute to Kenzo Tange

    News: today's Google Doodle in Japan celebrates what would have been the 100th birthday of Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. More

    Amy Frearson | 4 September 2013 | Leave a comment
  • Movie: Kenzo Tange's Yoyogi Olympic Arena by Harvard University design students

    Movie: shadows dance across the surface of Kenzo Tange's 1964 Olympic stadium in Tokyo in this animation by graduate design students at Harvard University. More

    Amy Frearson | 24 July 2012 | 1 comment

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    Ukrainian house in Antarctica

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