The Hall of Tokyo Central Telephone and Telegram Communication Traffic School
Yoshitika Utida
- Outline
- This hall accommodates approximately 1,000 people in an educational facility for the NTT Group. A low-rise, low-profile steel shell was realized by using Hubmeyer trusses made of angle and round steel. Various technologies and materials were used with reference to overseas, such as floating clouds for acoustics, Copenhagen ribs, aluminum extruded handrails, and thin PCa for the porte-cochere. Buckminster Fuller visited the building during construction and after completion.
- Location
- Tokyo
- Journal
- Shinkenchiku 2025:08
- Related Link
- Shop
- Special Link
- Matrix of 100 Years of Architecture(The 100th Anniversary of Shinkenchiku)
- Previous Categories
- Engineering and Shaping
- Category
- Long-Span Architecture
- Decade
- 1950s
- Thema