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Modern and
Contemporary Buildings

TOSHIMA- BUNKYO-KU KOTOTOI-DORI
KU Ueno EDO-DORI
Takada EXPRE S S WAY NO.5 Park Asakusa
Takadanobaba WASEDA- DORI HAKUSAN-DORI HONGO-DORI ASAKUSA-DORI
MEIJI-DORI Yushima Azumabashi
K ASUGA-DORI
TAITO-KU
Haramachi
Okubo EXPRESSWAY NO.1 Taito SUMIDA-
SHINJUKU- Fujimi Kanda EXPWY NO.6 KU
Shinjuku KU GAIEN- HIGASHI-DORI Ichigaya Ryogoku
OME-KAIDO
Yotsuya CHUO-DORI EDO -DORI EXPWY NO.7
Nishi-
Shinjuku Tokiwa
Yoyogi SHINJUKU-D O RI CHIYODA-
Wakaba KU Nihonbashi KOTO-
EXPRESSWAY NO.4 KU
Yaesu
Yoyogi CHUO- E XPWY NO.9
Park AOYAMA-DORI
Jingumae EXPWY NO.1 KU
Akasaka Ginza
SHIBUYA- SAKURADA-DORI HIBIYA-DORI Tsukiji
KU
Shibuya EXPWY NO.2 0 kilometers 2
Shoto EXPRESSWAY NO.3 MINATO- 0 miles 2
KU
Nakagin Capsule Tower
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MAP M5 • 8-16-10 Ginza,
Chuo-ku
Kisho Kurokawa (1934–2007) is one
of the founders of what became
known as the Metabolist movement
in architecture. His seminal Tokyo
building is the Nakagin Capsule
Tower from 1972, made out of 140
interchangeable concrete “pods.”
Asahi Beer Hall
3
MAP S3 • 1-23-1 Azuma-bashi,
Sumida-ku
The 1989 building was designed by
Philippe Starck. It’s also known as
Super Dry Hall and Flamme d’Or,
after the giant golden sculpture on
its roof, which is meant to symbolize
the frothy head of the brewing
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower company’s beer.
Tokyo Metropolitan
Mode Gakuen Cocoon
1 4
Government Building
Tower
MAP U2 • 1-7-3 Nishi Shinjuku, Stand back in the semicircular
Shinjuku-ku Citizen’s Plaza, at the foot of the
One of the slickest high rises to Tokyo Metropolitan Government
adorn Tokyo’s cityscape, this 2008 Building, to fully admire the
building in Shinjuku was designed by symmetry of Kenzo Tange’s 48-story,
Kenzo Tange Associates. Its criss- twin-towered creation. It cleverly
cross exterior pattern, rising up channels Paris’s Notre-Dame
50 floors, takes inspiration from Cathedral via a very 20th-century
a silkworm cocoon. Japanese prism (see p109).
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