1955 · Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

The 1955 museum in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park uses a raised mass and a strong axis to shape a place of memory.

Kenzo Tange’s postwar modernism meets a civic commemorative program.

Placement, emptiness, and horizontal mass regulate emotion more than applied decoration.

Its meaning becomes complete only within the axis of the entire Peace Park.

Modernism

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