Kenzo Tange's 1960 Tokyo Bay Planreflected the zeitgeist of a society enamored by rapid technological advancement and post-war optimism.Buckminster Fuller's 1959 dome concept over Manhattanwas developed on a belief in humanity's ability to shape its environment on an unprecedented scale. All through...
Kenzo Tange's 1960 Tokyo Bay Plan reflected the zeitgeist of a society enamored by rapid technological advancement and post-war optimism. Buckminster Fuller's 1959 dome concept over Manhattan was developed on a belief in humanity's ability to shape its environment on an unprecedented scale. All ...
Housed in the upper floors of the iconic Shinjuku Park Tower designed by Kenzo Tange, it offers lovely views of Mount Fuji, and easy access to the Tocho Mae metro station and Yoyogi Park city garden. The interior of the hotel is a case study in modern sophistication, further augmented by...
This article examines Kenzo Tange's unrealised urban scheme, A Plan for Tokyo, 1960: Toward a Structural Reorganization (1961), in terms of its mobility rather than its much-discussed monumentality [1]. Tange's plan to build a colossal floating city over Tokyo Bay quickly impressed both Japane...
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Isozaki worked under Kenzo Tange before establishing his own firm in 1963. His beginning projects were influenced and mesmorised by european experiences with a style mixed between "New Brutalism" & "Metabolist Architecture" according to Reyner Banham. He then developed into a more eleptic style ...
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Designed by Tange Kenzo, the startling modernist cathedral rises out of a pedestrian neighbourhood in Bunkyo-ku, completely incongruous but utterly serene. The metallic exterior contrasts with the cool, dark concrete interior, sliced through with lines of light from the windows, forming the shape of...
Hein C (2002) Hiroshima: the atomic bomb and Kenzo Tange’s Hiroshima Peace Center. In: Ockman J (ed) Out of ground zero: case studies in urban reinvention, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the study of American architecture. Columbia University, Prestel, Munich and New York, pp 61–83 ...
An essay is presented that documents Tokyo, Japan as a megalopolis and a wasteland and examines objects that delineate peripheral geographies of Tokyo haunted landscape where it meets the bay. Topics cited include Tange Kenzo's 1960 master plan for Tokyo, "Tokyo Megalopolis" which articulated the...