We recently featured “Spread House” by Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima of TNA. We asked them to share a work that has inspired them. They selected the Kagawa Prefectural Government Hall (currently Kagawa Prefectural Hall East Building), completed in 1958 and originally featured in our magazine Shinkenchiku (New Architecture) in 1959. Like their Spread House, it’s raised on pilotis and considered one of Kenzo Tange’s best early works. … Read More

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Kagawa Prefectural Government Hall

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