Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Sony Tower

Accession Number: 
109000
Order Title: 
Kisho Kurokawa: From Metabolism to Symbiosis (108986-109057)
Type of View: 
exterior detail
View Title: 
detail view of exterior
Image Rights: 
copyrighted
Source Institution: 
NCSU Libraries
Collection: 
Design Library Image Collection
Culture: 
Japanese
Subject: 
high-rise buildings
Subject: 
motion picture theaters
Subject: 
electronics
Subject: 
precast concrete
Subject: 
prefabrication
Subject: 
buildings, prefabricated
Subject: 
shopping
Subject: 
showrooms
Work Types: 
Architecture; dwellings; houses; prefabricated houses
Work Types: 
Architecture; commercial / industrial structures; retail stores
Preferred Title: 
Sony Tower
Agent Display: 
Gengo Matsui (Japanese engineer, 1920-); Kisho Kurokawa, Architect and Associates (Japanese architectural firm, active 1962-)
Date: 
1973-1976 (creation)
Materials: 
steel and reinforced concrete
Measurement: 
467 m2 (area, building)
Locations: 
¿saka, Ch¿bu, Japan
Location Type: 
(current)
Style/Period: 
Metabolism (movement)
Classification: 
Architecture