Tange, Kenzo (1913–2005)

The Memorial Cenotaph in the Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan. Designed by Kenzo Tange to commemorate the 200,000 people who died in the blast of the atomic bomb in 1945. The stone casket beneath the cenotaph contains the names of those who were killed.

Japanese modernist architect. His works include the National Gymnasium, Tokyo, for the 1964 Olympics, with its vast catenary steel roof; the 70-storey City Hall, Tokyo (1991), Japan's tallest building; and the crescent-shaped city of Abuja, which replaced Lagos as the capital of Nigeria in 1992. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1987.