Architecture Tokyo

27/07/2020

The best map for all architecture lovers in Tokyo

www.architecturetokyo.wordpress.com Architectural guide to a selection of worth seeing buildings around Tokyo.

25/07/2020

Setagaya Ward Office is an expetional exmaple of Kunio Maekawa’s facing concrete work. Outstanding is the folded plate structure of the auditorium. The concrete there becomes a impressive sculptural quality. Maekawa designed at the same time a similar auditorium building for the UNSECO in Paris. In this work the strong influence by Le Corbusier is obvious. On June 25 2016, Setagaya Ward announced that they are considering demolishing and rebuilding the ward office buildings. The building do not meet current earthquake codes and could be at risk of collapse in a large earthquake.

19/05/2020

This iconic concrete tower designed by architect Yoshinobu Ashihara became the outstanding landmark of Konazawa Olympic Park. Its structure refers to traditional Japanese wood architecture, but is transformed to a modernist shape and construction. What originally was facing concrete is today unfortunately painted white.

More information here > https://architecturetokyo.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/1964-komazawa-olympic-park-control-tower-yoshinobu-ashihara/

14/04/2019

New article out now!
Very fascinating and eclectic architecture by Togo Murano...

The present compound designed by Murano actually replaced smaller, earlier wooden facilities of the seminary. One of the leading theological study centers in Japan and the training ground for many …

14/03/2019

Never ever !!!

HERITAGE IN DANGER
Under Threat: Nakagin Capsule Tower
by Kisho Kurokawa, Tokyo, Japan, 1970-1972

https://www.docomomo.com/events?sec=4&id=746

Photo by Zara Ferreira

03/12/2018

Amazing Hotel Okura south wing

22/10/2018

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21/10/2018

What an amazing concrete structure (today unfortunately painted white) at Konazawa Olympic Park!

10/09/2018

The Shizuoka Tower gave Kenzo Tange a chance to materialize his Metabolist ideals, which called for a new urban typology that could self perpetuate in an organic, vernacular, “metabolic” manner.