Headquarters of the Japanese Red Cross Society |
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Minato-ku, Tokyo , Japan Design / Construction:1975-1977 Building Area: 2,827.087m² Total Floor Area: 22,525.838m² Steel and Reinforced Concrete 2 Basement Floor + 8 Floors In designing the new building, it became impossible to preserve the oldRed Cross building since half of the site was to be sold away.Consequently, window frames of the exterior wall and part of the oldbuilding's interior were incorporated in a symbolic way. To merge the pastwith the present - the art of sculpture with the functional utility ofmodern technology - is a central theme of Metabolism. * The 19th BCS Award, 1978 * The 6th JIA 25-year Award, 2006 |