Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Year
- 1967
- Typology
- Office
- Materials
- Bamboo & Paper, Concrete, Glass, Steel
- Context
- Metabolism, Modernism
- Map
- Open location
The Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center is a building located in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan. Built in 1967, 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. It was built on a 189 square metres (2,030 sq ft) triangular site, and erected around a column, 7.7 metres (25 ft) in diameter, which forms the building's central core, and around which thirteen individual offices are connected asymmetrically. The building was meant to be a prototype for a perpetually regenerating, prefabricated urban megastructure. It was designed with the intention 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, it is still considered to be a aesthetically notable example of form and function.
