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Tower House: Exterior · Toh-no-iye, or the Tower House, Tokyo
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Photo 1: Exterior · Toh-no-iye, or the Tower House, Tokyo

House · Brutalism

Tower House

Takamitsu Azuma · Tokyo, Japan · 1966

Key featuresA slim exposed-concrete tower on a tiny triangular lot stacks its rooms around an open stair.

Architect
Takamitsu Azuma
Place
Tokyo, Japan
Year
1966
Typology
House
Movement
Brutalism
Region
East Asia
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