Tokyo Tower – Shiba Koen | Tachū Naitō (Japan) 1958 東京タワー
Tokyo Tower – Shiba Koen | Tachū Naitō (Japan) 1958 東京タワー
Tokyo Tower – Shiba Koen | Tachū Naitō (Japan) 1958 東京タワー
Tokyo Tower – Shiba Koen | Tachū Naitō (Japan) 1958 東京タワー
St Mary’s Cathedral – Bunkyo | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1964 東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂
St Mary’s Cathedral – Bunkyo | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1964 東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂
St Mary’s Cathedral – Bunkyo | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1964 東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂
St Mary’s Cathedral – Bunkyo | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1964 東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂
Yoyogi National Gymnasium – Shibuya | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1964 国立代々木競技場
Yoyogi National Gymnasium – Shibuya | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1964 国立代々木競技場
Yoyogi National Gymnasium – Shibuya | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1964 国立代々木競技場
Yoyogi National Gymnasium – Shibuya | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1964 国立代々木競技場
Nakagin Capsule Tower – Shimbashi | Kisho Kurokawa (Japan) 1972 中銀カプセルタワー
Nakagin Capsule Tower – Shimbashi | Kisho Kurokawa (Japan) 1972 中銀カプセルタワー
Nakagin Capsule Tower – Shimbashi | Kisho Kurokawa (Japan) 1972 中銀カプセルタワー
Nakagin Capsule Tower – Shimbashi | Kisho Kurokawa (Japan) 1972 中銀カプセルタワー
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building – Shinjuku | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1991 東京都庁舎
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building – Shinjuku | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1991 東京都庁舎
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building – Shinjuku | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1991 東京都庁舎
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building – Shinjuku | Kenzō Tange (Japan) 1991 東京都庁舎
Fuji Television Headquarters Building – Odaiba | Tange Associates (Japan) 1996 フジテレビ
Fuji Television Headquarters Building – Odaiba | Tange Associates (Japan) 1996 フジテレビ
Fuji Television Headquarters Building – Odaiba | Tange Associates (Japan) 1996 フジテレビ
Fuji Television Headquarters Building – Odaiba | Tange Associates (Japan) 1996 フジテレビ
Tokyo International Forum – Marunouchi | Rafael Viñoly Architects (USA) 1997 東京国際フォーラム
Tokyo International Forum – Marunouchi | Rafael Viñoly Architects (USA) 1997 東京国際フォーラム
Tokyo International Forum – Marunouchi | Rafael Viñoly Architects (USA) 1997 東京国際フォーラム
Tokyo International Forum – Marunouchi | Rafael Viñoly Architects (USA) 1997 東京国際フォーラム
Prada – Aoyama | Herzog & DeMeuron (Switzerland) 2003
Prada – Aoyama | Herzog & DeMeuron (Switzerland) 2003
Prada – Aoyama | Herzog & DeMeuron (Switzerland) 2003
Prada – Aoyama | Herzog & DeMeuron (Switzerland) 2003
Baisoin Temple – Aoyama | Kengo Kuma & Associates (Japan) 2003 梅窓院
Baisoin Temple – Aoyama | Kengo Kuma & Associates (Japan) 2003 梅窓院
Baisoin Temple – Aoyama | Kengo Kuma & Associates (Japan) 2003 梅窓院
Baisoin Temple – Aoyama | Kengo Kuma & Associates (Japan) 2003 梅窓院
National Art Center, Tokyo – Roppongi | Kisho Kurokawa (Japan) 2007 国立新美術館
National Art Center, Tokyo – Roppongi | Kisho Kurokawa (Japan) 2007 国立新美術館
National Art Center, Tokyo – Roppongi | Kisho Kurokawa (Japan) 2007 国立新美術館
National Art Center, Tokyo – Roppongi | Kisho Kurokawa (Japan) 2007 国立新美術館
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower – Shinkuku | Tange Associates (Japan) 2008 モード学園コクーンタワー
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower – Shinkuku | Tange Associates (Japan) 2008 モード学園コクーンタワー
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower – Shinkuku | Tange Associates (Japan) 2008 モード学園コクーンタワー
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower – Shinkuku | Tange Associates (Japan) 2008 モード学園コクーンタワー
Tokyo Skytree – Sumida | Nikken Sekkei (Japan) 2012 東京スカイツリー
Tokyo Skytree – Sumida | Nikken Sekkei (Japan) 2012 東京スカイツリー
Tokyo Skytree – Sumida | Nikken Sekkei (Japan) 2012 東京スカイツリー
Tokyo Skytree – Sumida | Nikken Sekkei (Japan) 2012 東京スカイツリー

 

Architecture is man’s great sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art is great life.

－ Frank Lloyd Wright

The world’s great cities are in part defined by their architecture: their landmark civic and corporate buildings, their iconic monuments and stadiums, their engineering masterworks. When these structures reimagine the traditional notions of their forms, they become as much sculptural works of public art as functioning edifices. Since the reconstruction that began after the Second World War, and particularly since the build-up to the 1964 Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo has and continues to construct its own striking collection of such architectural masterworks.

NOVEMBER, 2014