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Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center

The Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center is a building located in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan. Built in 1967, it is considered to be the first realization of Kenzo Tange's Metabolist movement, which called for a new urban typology that could self-perpetuate in an organic, "metabolic" way. It was built on a 189 square metres (2,030 sq ft) triangular site, and erected around a column, 7.7 metres (25 ft) in diameter, which f…

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1967

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center in Tokyo, Japan

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Kenzo Tange

1913-2005 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He first achieved recognition for his projects to reconstruct the destroyed cities of postwar Japan, partic…

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Kenzo Tange Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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