Overall view from rear. Saint Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan. Architect: Kenzo Tange/Tange Associates, 1964.

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The original wooden structure, constructed in 1899 in the Gothic style, was destroyed during the air raids on Tokyo during World War II. The current Saint Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo is a project by the celebrated architect Kenzo Tange , the greatest exponent of modern architecture in Japan and the first Japanese to be awarded the Pritzker prize. Tange's project is at the midpoint between Modernism and the Metabolist movement, between the abstract and the symbolic, between the bright and polished exterior and the dark and rough in sum, between the East and the West.

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