#1: Peace Bridge is east of Peace Park. The rails remind you of the rising
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 Rails Designed by: Isamu NOGUCHI
Location: Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City
Purpose of Use: Bridges
Completed in: 1953
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TANGE was consulted by the Ministry of Construction about the rails of
the bridges near Peace Park. He commissioned Isamu NOGUCHI to design the
bridge rails. TANGE wrote about NOGUCHI's design that he felt ISE. By ISE,
TANGE meant primitive Japanese culture before the later Japanese culture
represented by Samurai or Geisha.
Here's what TANGE says in his book:
When I received his sketch in New York and looked at the bare concrete rails sculpted in a splendid scale, I somehow felt ISE. Later I went to Hiroshima with him for the construction of the bridges. He looked at the Museum I designed and said he felt ISE. NOGUCHI had ISE in mind when he designed the rails as I did when I designed the Museum. I couldn't help grinning. (snip) The bridge rail representing the sun has the dynamism of ISE.
(From Human and Architecture-design memorandum pp258; original text in Japanese) |
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