Heights of tackiness in Tokyo
The Tokyo Reporter just reminded* me that today the kitschy Tokyo “Sky Tree” was officially recognized this week by the Guinness Book of Records as the World’s Tallest Stalinist† Freestanding Tower (Asahi News).
†Refer to the previous 3Yen posts on Tokyo’s grim gray Stalinist style of concrete architecture:
. . . → ☢ A Sky Tree Grows In Tokyo (3Yen / 2010-04-15)
. . . → ☣ Ill Machine Tokyo (3Yen / 2008-01-22 )↓
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November 18th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Take a walk on the wild side. Stroll the slums around the Sky Tree via Google Street.
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November 18th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
The grim gray on Google Earth shows the “concrete” reality of the environs of Tokyo Sky Tree even better than Google Street.
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June 16th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Comparison of Japanese towers…
Engorge.