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...many of Tange's peers is the building's design: with its split tower, ersatz campaniles and creme brulee surface of glass-and-granite panels, it would be a postmodern monument -- Notre Dame redesigned by Gaudi and enlarged to monstrous proportions. "Tange's city hall is garish," says Architect Takefumi Aida, "so much so that it would end up looking like a symbol of Japan as a nouveau riche state. I can't stand...
...work of Takefumi Aida, 50, is reminiscent of a particular kind of American postmodernism: the playful houses of California's Charles Moore, architecture as fun. Each of Aida's houses appears to be a sprawling stack of a child's multicolored building blocks in Brobdingnag -- simple rectangles, cylinders, triangles and crescents...
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