Two Olympics, two Tokyos: Father, son design aquatics venues decades apart

Japanese architect Paul Noritaka Tange (63), who designed the Tokyo Aquatics Center for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, shows his family photos of his father Kenzo Tange during an interview at his office in Tokyo, Japan May 17, 2021. Picture taken May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Naoki Ogura

TOKYO (Reuters) -When Paul Noritaka Tange won the rights to design the Aquatics Centre for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, one of the first things he did was to visit the grave of his father: the revolutionary Pritzker-winning architect, Kenzo Tange.

"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.