Hiroshima Peace Center
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 | Hiroshima Peace Center |
| Designer | Kenzo Tange |
| Location | Hiroshima, Japan |
| Date | 1949 to 1956 |
| Building Type | museum and community center |
| Climate | humid subtropical |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
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| Notes | by competition. Simple linear mass on columns with louvered walls. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Hiroshima_Peace_Center.html |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Sites | |
| Name | Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) |
| UNESCO State Party | Japan |
| Region | Asia-Pacific |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | vi |
| UNESCO Site ID | 775 |
| Year of Listing | 1996 |
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Commentary
"The building is raised up on pillars, its structure a framework of exposed concrete. The complex as a whole has a monumental quality. There are two secondary buildings, one on either side, consisting of an auditoruim, a hotel, an exhibition gallery, a library, offices and a conference centre to the west, and an assembly hall with capacity for 2,500 people to the east....Together they form a kind of screen for the square of Peace, which extends to the north, in which up to 50,000 people can congregate around the monument to Peace. The monument...in the form of a hyperbolic parabola, brings together modern tendencies and techniques and the ancient form of the Haniwa, the traditional tombs of the rulers of old Japan."
— Udo Kultermann. Kenzo Tange: Works and Projects. p163-165.
The Creator's Words
" 'Inconsistency itself breeds vitality,'...The greatest overriding inconsistency is the one 'that arises from the confrontation of technology and human existence,...We live in a world where great incompatibles coexist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality. These are the reflections of the gap between advancing technology and humanity as historical existence...I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.'�"
— Kenzo Tange. from Robin Boyd. Kenzo Tange. p15.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Hiroshima Peace Memorial, commonly called the Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome ( Genbaku Domu), in Hiroshima, Japan, is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The building serves as a memorial to the people who died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
History
thumb|left|Hiroshima Commercial Museum 1915 The building was originally designed by Czech architect Jan Letzel. It was completed in April 1915, and the new building was named the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition (HMI). It was formally opened to the public in August that year. In 1921 the name was changed to the Hiroshima Prefectural Products Exhibition Hall, and again in 1933 to the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall.
Atomic bombing
Having slightly missed the original target (the distinctive "T"-shaped Aioi Bridge), at 8:15 on August 6, 1945 the first nuclear bomb to be used against mankind detonated almost directly above the dome (the actual center of the blast was away and above ground).
The Genbaku Dome was originally scheduled to be demolished with the rest of the ruins, but the fact that it was mostly intact delayed these plans. As Hiroshima was rebuilt around the dome, it became a subject of controversy; some locals wanted it torn down, while others wanted to preserve it as a memorial of the bombing.Hiroshima Peace Museum
China had reservations regarding the confirmation of the memorial as a World Heritage Site and the delegate of the United States to the World Heritage Committee dissociated himself from the decision. China cited the possibility that the monument could be used to downplay the fact that the victim countries of Japan's aggression suffered the greatest losses of life during the war, while the United States claimed that having a memorial to a "war site" would omit the necessary historical context.WH Committee: Report of the 20th Session, Merida 1996
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Robin Boyd. Kenzo Tange. New York: George Braziller, 1962. NA1559 .T33B6. LC 62-16267. p15.
Udo Kultermann. Kenzo Tange: Works and Projects. 1st spanish/english edition. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, S.A., 1989. ISBN 84-252-1400-9. NA1559.T33K83 1989. p163-165.
Kevin Matthews. Slides in photopgrapher's collection.
Paolo Riani. Kenzo Tange. London, New York. The Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1970. Color plate, f1.
Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. exterior photo, p207. — Available at Amazon.com
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