Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center
Tokyo, Japan
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Located in Ginza, Tokyo, the Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center is a 57-meter-tall building completed in 1967 by architect Kenzō Tange. It represents the first realized expression of Tange's Metabolist movement, an architectural philosophy calling for cities designed to grow and regenerate organically like living organisms. Constructed on a constrained triangular site of 189 square meters, the building centers on a massive 7.7-meter-diameter column around which thirteen office spaces cluster asymmetrically. The design deliberately left gaps between these clusters, envisioning future additions that would allow the structure to evolve and expand as needs changed—a vision of perpetually self-renewing urban megastructure. Though this adaptive expansion never materialized and the building has remained unaltered since its completion, it endures as an aesthetically significant demonstration of Metabolism's principles of form and function.
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- Type
- building
- Height
- 57 m
- Place
- Tokyo, Japan
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