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	PEACE CENTER INDEX

Gates of Peace As written in the page for Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, eternal world peace is destined to internationalism; TANGE employed international style for the Museum. A term HIROSHIMA is symbolic for those who advocate internationalism in many parts of the world. Art works and music concerning Hiroshima has been created in many places. DATA Design: Jean Michel WILMOTTE + Clara HALTER + Obayashi Corp. Location: 57-2 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City Purpose of Use: Public art Completed in: 2005 Scale (each gate): 9025mm height, 2640mm wide, 1600mm deep Structure: S map (mapion) map (Google Map) Let's take a look at this art work. On the universal form of gate, the word Peace is written in 18 letters or characters and 49 languages. The spans of gates are equivalent to those of the pillars of the piloti, paying respect to TANGE. There has to be ten gates because nine gates represent the nine hells in Dante's Divine Comedy and the last remaining gate represents the A-bombing. It seems to be one relevant way of expressing internationalism. Now that the survivors are really aged, it is an urgent matter to put out more information and message from Hiroshima effectively. Art works sending out clear message like this installation will become more valuable. #1: Characters and letters are written on 15mm hardened glass in ceramic print. #2 #3 #4 #5 Created on Aug 20, 2005 Last updated on Jul 3, 2008 Written by makoto Translated by jasmine Photos taken by makoto Camera: NikonD70 Photos on this page are licensed under a Creative Commons License. You are free to copy and make commercial use of them under the conditions "Attribution" and "No Derivative Works". [about copyright] PEACE CENTER INDEX (CC) arch-hiroshima 2006