New Sky Building #3

Collective housing · by Makoto Sei Watanabe · 1972

Japan

Instead of a conventional block, this project is organized around the idea of a structural backbone with attachable parts—an architecture that looks engineered rather than composed. Balconies and projecting elements give the facade a layered depth, as if the building is constantly negotiating between interior life and the city outside. The modular language makes the silhouette feel changeable, even when the structure is static: repetition with subtle shifts is the main visual device. Concrete is used as both structure and finish, so joints, seams, and edges become the building’s ornament. From the street, it reads like a stack of systems—circulation, services, and inhabitable volumes—made visible instead of hidden. It’s a compact lesson in how metabolism’s futuristic promises translated into everyday urban building.

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