:Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
{{Short description|Skyscraper located in Tokyo}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox building
|name = Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
|native_name = モード学園コクーンタワー
|native_name_lang = ja
|image = 2024 Cocoon Tower 02 (cropped).jpg
|image_size = 200px
|caption =
|location = 1-7-3 Nishi-Shinjuku
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
|coordinates = {{coord|35|41|30|N|139|41|49|E|region:JP-13_scale:4000|display=inline,title}}
|status =
|start_date = 2006
|completion_date = 2008
|opening = October 2008
|building_type = Educational institution
|architectural_style = Structural expressionism
|antenna_spire =
|roof = {{convert|204|m|ft|sp=us}}
|top_floor =
|floor_count = 50 above ground
3 below ground
|elevator_count =
|cost =
|floor_area =
|architect = Tange Associates
|structural_engineer= Arup
|main_contractor = Shimizu Corporation
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}}
{{nihongo|Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower|モード学園コクーンタワー|Mōdo gakuen kokūn tawā}} is a {{convert|204|m|ft|abbr=off|adj=mid|-tall}}, 50-story educational facility located in the Nishi-Shinjuku district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
The building was designed by a team led by Paul Noritaka Tange, the son of Kenzo Tange.{{Cite web |title=モード学園コクーンタワー |url=https://www.tangeweb.com/project/modegakuen/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=TANGE建築都市設計 |language=ja}} The building is home to three educational institutions: Tokyo Mode Gakuen (fashion vocational school), HAL Tokyo (special technology and design college), and Shuto Ikō (medical college). Completed in October 2008, the tower is the second-tallest educational building in the world and was the 17th-tallest building in Tokyo. It was awarded the 2008 Skyscraper of the Year by Emporis.
Design
Mode Gakuen invited architects to compete to build its new Tokyo location, stipulating that the building could not be rectangular. About 50 architects submitted more than 150 proposals. The winner had a curved shell of white aluminum and dark blue glass, criss-crossed by a web of white diagonal lines. The architects, Tange Associates, said its cocoon-like shape symbolizes nurturing the students inside;{{cite web |url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20090114TDY03104.htm |title=Unusual structures grab attention |access-date=January 29, 2009 |author=Takano, Kiyomi |date=January 14, 2009 |work=The Daily Yomiuri |archive-date=April 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401090714/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20090114TDY03104.htm |url-status=dead }} they also said they wanted the building to revitalize the surrounding area and to create a gateway between Shinjuku Station and the Shinjuku central business district. The building earned the firm the Emporis 2008 Skyscraper of the year award.{{cite web|date=January 22, 2009|title=Tokyo's Cocoon Tower selected as 2008 Skyscraper of the Year|url=http://europe-re.com/tokyo-s-cocoon-tower-selected-as-2008-skyscraper-of-the-year/27912|access-date=January 26, 2009|publisher=Europe Real Estate}}
Facilities
Built on the former site of the now-demolished Asahi Life headquarters, construction of the Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower began in May 2006 and was completed in October 2008. The {{convert|204|m|ft|abbr=off}}-tall, 50-story tower is the second-tallest educational building in the world (surpassed only by the main building of the Moscow State University) and was the 17th-tallest building in Tokyo.{{cite web|url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=tokyomodegakuen-tokyo-japan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223230334/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=tokyomodegakuen-tokyo-japan |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 23, 2007 |title=Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower |access-date=January 26, 2009 |publisher=Emporis.com}} The vertical campus can accommodate 10,000 students for the three vocational schools that occupy the building. Tokyo Mode Gakuen, for which the building in named after, is a fashion school. The other schools, HAL Tokyo and Shuto Ikō, are information technology and medical schools, respectively, that are operated by Mode Gakuen University. Each floor of the tower contains three rectangular classrooms that surround an inner core. The inner core consists of an elevator, a staircase and a support shaft. Every three floors, a three-story student lounge is located between the classrooms and faces three directions: east, southwest and northwest.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10970 |title=Recently completed Cocoon Tower makes education design as easy as A-B-C |author=Young, Niki May |date=January 23, 2009 |access-date=January 26, 2009 |publisher=WorldArchitectureNews.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007041721/http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview |archive-date=October 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}
File:Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower inside - july 22 2016.jpg|Inside the tower, 2016
File:Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower detail side - july 22 2016.jpg|Detail of the façade, 2016
File:Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in the evening with blue sky Tokyo Japan.jpg|The tower in the evening, 2019
File:Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower night Nov 16 2019 06-40PM.jpeg|The tower at night, 2019
File:Skyscrapers_of_Shinjuku_2009_January_(bannerportada_esvoy).jpg|In the 2009 skyline.
See also
References
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External links
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{{Emporis Skyscraper Award}}
{{Tokyo Skyscrapers}}
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Category:Commercial buildings completed in 2008
Category:High-tech architecture
Category:Lattice shell structures