Yoyogi National Gymnasium (National Yoyogi Sports Center); 1964 Olympic Games

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Creator Tange, Kenzo -- Architect -- Japanese -- Male; Tsuboi, Yoshikatsu -- Engineer -- Japanese -- Male; Kawaguchi, Mamoru -- Engineer -- Japanese -- Male
Title Yoyogi National Gymnasium (National Yoyogi Sports Center); 1964 Olympic Games
Spatial Coverage Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Kanto, Japan
Description Exterior, general view.
Work Dates 1961-64
Date Earliest 1961
Century 20
Style Period Modern; Post-1945; High-Tech
Culture Japanese
Technique Steel-frame construction, Reinforced concrete
Material Concrete, Steel, Suspended high tension cable
Subject Recreation structures -- Recreation buildings -- Sports buildings -- Physical education buildings -- Gymnasiums; Recreation structures -- Recreation buildings -- Sports buildings -- Arenas; Olympic structures; Olympic Games (18th : 1964 : Tokyo, Japan)
Image Source Undocumented source (original photography or duplicate of original photography).
Rights Digital image copyright 2008, College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah. All rights reserved.
Contributing Institution University of Utah
CA+P Accession No. ARCH-7203
Format image/jpeg
Type Image
Digitization Specifications Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
ARK ark:/87278/s60p13cz
Setname uu_cap_coa
ID 90876
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60p13cz
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