Cocoon

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The Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, to give it its official title, is an educational building including a fashion school.  The cocoon shape is intended to symbolise  a building that nurtures the students inside...implying they are moths...or aliens?

Yet another Tange Associates building in Tokyo.  This time winner of 2008 Skyscraper of the Year, an accolade shared with the Twisting Torso, Malmö in 2005 and the Gherkin, London in 2003.  Selected from a competition, the only mandatory criterion of which was that it should not be rectangular, it certainly wins on that score.

 

 

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