Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
Nishi-Shinjuku, Japan
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Rising 204 metres above Nishi-Shinjuku in Tokyo, the Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower is a 50-story educational skyscraper completed in October 2008. Designed by Paul Noritaka Tange of Tange Associates in high-tech style, the tower houses three institutions: Tokyo Mode Gakuen, a fashion vocational school; HAL Tokyo, a technology and design college; and Shuto Ikō, a medical college. Upon completion, it became the second-tallest educational building in the world and earned the 2008 Skyscraper of the Year award from Emporis.
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Movement
- Built
- Type
- skyscraper, vertical campus building
- Height
- 204 m
- Place
- Nishi-Shinjuku, Japan
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