hopePlate 171 · Tokyo, Japan

Yoyogi National Gymnasium

A tensile roof like a drawn bow, built for an Olympics that announced a new Japan.

1964 · Kenzo Tange · Asia

The chamber score

Nasuno

Yamada-ryū koto · Edo

A landscape in silk strings.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Tange's masterpiece, among the great structural buildings of the 20th century.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Yoyogi National Gymnasium through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Yoyogi National Gymnasium was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.