Shizuoka kenzo tange biography

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Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center

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Introduction

In the Newspaper and Shizuoka Broadcasting Corporation instructs the Japanese architect Kenzo Tange construction of its headquarters in the district of Ginza, Tokyo. This is the first project that manages to unite Tange spatial concepts of architecture and urban planning. The germ of this idea is already in the Tokyo Plan It is also the first embodiment of the ideas Metabolists Kenzo Tange, inspired by organic growth and developed in the fifties.

Due to the small size of the site, Tange decided to design the building vertically, which, moreover, goes with the spirit of the advertising company responsible for the project. The architect aims to create a true mega urban structure (a term coined by his fellow

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KENZO TANGE


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	Name	Kenzō Tange, (丹下健三)

	Born	September 4,

	Died	March 22 ,

	Nationality	Japan

	School	METABOLISTS

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BIOGRAPHY
	For the quarter century following World War II, Kenzo Tange was among the world’s leading architects; his work defined post-war modernism in Japan. Tange’s promising beginning, after graduating from the University of Tokyo in and then working for Kunio Maekawa for four years, was enhanced by the almost complete disappearance of architectural practice during th • Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center Building in Tokyo, Japan The Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center is a building located in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan. Built in , it is considered to be the first realization of Kenzo Tange's Metabolist movement, which called for a new urban typology that could self-perpetuate in an organic, "metabolic" way.^[1] It was built on a square metres (2,&#;sq&#;ft) triangular site, and erected around a column, metres (25&#;ft) in diameter, which forms the building's central core, and around which thirteen individual offices are connected asymmetrically.^[2] The building was meant to be a prototype for a perpetually regenerating, prefabricated urban megastructure.^[1] It was designed with the ambition that the space between the office clusters could be filled with additional offices in the future as demand increased. However, this idea was never realized and the building remains unchanged since it was built. Despite this, i