Kenzo Tange, the architect from Japan who sprung on to the scene with a masterplan for rebuilding Hiroshima at the end of WWII, has died of heart failure at age 91.
Profoundly influenced by the work of Le Corbusier, Tange fused traditional Japanese forms with structural daring to create a body of internationally recognised work, including the buildings pictured below. To read Tange's obituary, click here. To see more buildings by Kenzo Tange, visit his website.
National gymnasiums in TokyoIn the work considered his masterpiece - the twin gymnasiums designed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics - he placed two comma-shaped buildings, with sweeping roofs like upside-down ships' hulls, so as to connect two busy Tokyo districts.
Tokyo's city hallThe Tokyo city hall complex (in the foreground of this aerial view), built in 1991 in the city's Shinjuku district, consists of the high-rise No 1 and lower No 2 government buildings, and the low-slung parliament building.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial ParkHis Peace Centre in Hiroshima (the low building on stilts in the middle of the picture) was built four years after the US atomic bombing in 1945 and designed to become the 'spiritual core' of the city. Seen at bottom right is the A-Bomb Dome.
Yamanashi press and broadcasting centre, KofuDescribed by Jonathan Glancey as a 'determinedly indeterminate building', this brutalist structure was built between 1964 and 67.
