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— Purple #43 S/S 2025
The Tokyo Diary Issue

kyoto international conference center

by SAICHO OTANI The massive, futuristic Kyoto International Conference Center, designed in 1966 by Sachio Otani, a former member of Kenzo Tange’s studio, is a striking example of postwar Metabolist (shinchintaisha, aka metaborizumu) architecture. With its bold oblique angles and almost no straight walls or columns, the building resembles origami and reimagines traditional Japanese temple […]

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