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Cenotaph for the A-Bomb Victims, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima
Photographer: John Barr and Architect: Kenzō Tange (1913-2005)2011
Royal Institute of British Architects
London, United Kingdom
Tange designed this memorial to the victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb based on an idea by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. It was originally constructed (in 1952) in concrete but this had deteriorated to such a degree that the memorial was rebuilt in 1985 in granite.
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- Title: Cenotaph for the A-Bomb Victims, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima
- Creator: Photographer: John Barr, Architect: Kenzō Tange (1913-2005)
- Date Created: 2011
- Location Created: Hiroshima, Japan
- Rights: John Barr / RIBA Collections
- Medium: Digital image
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