代々木競技場を重文に　東京五輪・パラ会場―文化審

　文化審議会（佐藤信会長）は２１日、１９６４年の東京五輪の際に建築された国立代々木競技場（東京都渋谷区）など７件の建造物を新たに重要文化財に指定するよう、萩生田光一文部科学相に答申した。答申通り告示されれば、重文の中で最も新しい建造物となる。
　代々木競技場は世界的な建築家、丹下健三氏の代表作で、第１、第２体育館の２棟を答申。ケーブルで屋根と観客席を支える「吊り構造」など前例のない技法を開発し、空前のダイナミックな建築を実現したと評価した。体育館が重文に指定されるのは初めて。
　６４年の五輪では、第１体育館は水泳会場、第２はバスケットボール会場として使われた。今夏の東京五輪・パラリンピックでも、第１体育館がハンドボールやバドミントンの会場として使われる予定。（2021/05/21-17:21）

A Japanese government panel proposed Friday that the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, which was built for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, be included in the state's list of important cultural assets.
   The Council for Cultural Affairs submitted the recommendation to add the gymnasium in the capital's Shibuya Ward and six other structures in the country to the list to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Koichi Hagiuda. The gymnasium would be the most recently built structure among all properties on the list.
   The council proposed that the first and second gymnasiums of the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, designed by the late world-renowned Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, for the registration as an important cultural asset.
   Noting that Tange developed unprecedented techniques, including the roof's suspension structure, the council said that the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, completed a month before the October 1964 Tokyo Games, was a dynamic piece of architecture unlike any seen before. It would be the first gymnasium on the list of important cultural assets.
   In the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games, the first gymnasium was used for swimming events and the second gymnasium for basketball matches.