WATCH: A father and son have designed Olympic venues decades apart
"I wanted to tell him I'd grown enough to do this, too. That the office he founded was still fighting on," Paul, 63, said of his father, who died in 2005 at 91.
But in 2021, Japan is an aging nation that has struggled for years with economic malaise, and its crowded, high-rise capital is a very different place. Re-use and sustainability are the mantras under which Paul designed his venue for a Games overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. "Before I really knew it, I wanted to follow the same path. It came naturally. After all, everything in daily life was architecture."
Despite Kenzo leaving his mark all over Tokyo, the Yoyogi Gymnasium remained the pinnacle of his fame in some ways. Designed in a year and built in 18 months, the venue was completed just over a month before the 1964 Games began."There's a photo of my father and a lot of men staring at a mock-up in his office. It seemed there was one proposal after another, and it took forever to decide," Paul said.
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