Paul Noritaka Tange
{{Infobox architect
| name = Paul Noritaka Tange
| significant_buildings = Cocoon Tower
| education = Gakushūin
| alma_mater = Harvard University
| birth_place = Tokyo
| parents = Kenzo Tange
| website = https://en.tangeweb.com/
}}
Paul Noritaka Tange (丹下ポール憲孝) is a Japanese architect who currently leads Tange Associates.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-22 |title=“I Followed My Father’s Advice and Did Not Design a House for My Family” in Conversation With Paul Tange |url=https://www.archdaily.com/992541/i-followed-my-fathers-advice-and-did-not-design-a-house-for-my-family-in-conversation-with-paul-tange |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=ArchDaily |language=en-US}} He is the eldest son of the late architect Kenzo Tange.{{Cite web |date=2013-12-07 |title=「父は巨匠」の重荷 丹下憲孝さんに聞く 妥協せぬ仕事ぶり糧に 激動する建築に挑む |url=https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKDZO63701000W3A201C1NNP000/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=日本経済新聞 |language=ja}}
Biography
Tange was born in 1958 and received his primary education at Gakushuin in Tokyo. At the age of 14, he moved to Switzerland to study at Institut Le Rosey. He later pursued higher education at Harvard University in the United States, where his father had been invited to lecture.
In his second year at university, he told his father that he intended to become an architect. After 30 seconds of pause, Kenzo Tange responded with the advice: 'Since you only live once, do whatever you truly love as a lifelong passion'. Kenzo also famously encouraged Noritaka to 'focus on one thing for 72 hours'.
Projects
Source:{{Cite web |last=Al-Jamie |first=Anthony |title=The Tange Legacy: Like Father, Like Son |url=https://www.tokyojournal.com/tokyo-photography-issue/item/963-the-tange-legacy-like-father,-like-son.html |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=www.tokyojournal.com |language=en-gb}}
File:2018 FCG Headquarters Building 2.jpg|FCG Building (1996)
File:President International Tower 20080120.jpg|Uni-President International Tower, Taipei (2004
File:Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR 2018.jpg|Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (2005)
File:2019 Coccoon-Tower.jpg|Cocoon Tower (2008)
File:The ONE 2010.jpg|The ONE shopping centre, Hong Kong (2010)
File:The Tube, Orchard Gateway, Singapore - 20161211-01.jpg|Orchard Gateway, Singapore (2014)
File:Tokyo Aquatics Centre.jpg|Tokyo Aquatics Centre (2020){{Cite web |title=茂木健一郎のトークサロン ☆ ゲスト 丹下憲孝 (建築家) ＜もぎ研 Vol.5＞ {{!}} 株式会社 ブックハウスカフェ |url=https://bookhousecafe.jp/event/content/1684 |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=株式会社 ブックハウスカフェ {{!}} 神保町唯一のこどもの本専門店 & カフェ |language=ja}}