In his second video selection for Virtual Design Festival, Martin van der Linden explains the Metabolist characteristics of Kenzo Tange’s Kuwait Embassy, which the video blogger describes as one of his favourite buildings in Tokyo.
Van der Linde has produced a host of short videos about Tokyo architecture for his One Minute Architecture channel on YouTube, eight of which he has selected for Virtual Design Festival.
In this video, he says he ranks Tange’s 1970 Embassy of Kuwait as one of his favourite buildings in the metropolis.
“People often ask me: ‘What’s your favourite building in Tokyo?'” van der Linden says, while standing opposite the seven-storey concrete structure in Tokyo’s Minato ward. “The building here behind me is definitely one of my favourites.”
Designed by renowned Japanese architect Kenzo Tange in the late 1960s and completed in 1970, the embassy building comprises a series of stacked, cantilevered concrete boxes. These house offices on the lower floors, while the ambassador’s residence occupies the upper levels.
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