Overview
Its sunken plaza inverts Michelangelo's Campidoglio - a high point of Japanese postmodern architecture.
About this place
Tsukuba Center Building is a building (multipurpose complex) in Azuma 1-chome, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. It is the core facility of the center district of Tsukuba Science City and a landmark of the city. It is a representative work of the architect Isozaki Arata and is regarded as a representative work of postmodern architecture in Japan.
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Founded / opened:1983 Architect / artist:Arata Isozaki Highlights / collection:Quotation of Michelangelo's piazza, Representative postmodern work Genre:Architecture
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