He then charted an axis that extends from the Peace Boulevard to the Atomic Bomb Dome and designed the ground floor of the museum using pilotis (stilts in an open space without any walls) so that the axis will not be obstructed. He first moved the museum to the edge of the area and created a large plaza in the center while preserving the route marked by the former Saigoku Kaido highway, which was once a busy street. Tange had looked at the city in a holistic manner and attempted to create a spatial and spiritual center for it. Our approach to this facility that we are currently constructing should be guided by the aim to build a factory for the creation of peace. This facility in Hiroshima built for the commemoration of peace should not serve to commemorate peace in an ideological manner instead, it should play a constructive role in the creation of peace. Peace is not bestowed on us by nature or God but is something that everyone can create through their practical action. Peace is not something that comes naturally to us it is something that we must fight for. Tange had conceptualized the Peace Memorial Park as a “factory for the creation of peace,” an idea that he outlined as follows. Having spent his prewar years as a student in Hiroshima, Tange had a deep affinity for Hiroshima and was involved in surveying the city after the atomic bombing and proposing urban reconstruction plans for it.
The fact that two buildings in Hiroshima (this museum and the Memorial Cathedral for World Peace), instead of those in Tokyo or Osaka, were the first postwar buildings to be designated as Japan’s nationally important cultural properties is testament to this.īoth the park and the museum were designed by Tange Kenzo (1913-2005), one of the leading architects in postwar Japan who had also designed the facilities for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the Osaka World Expo.
Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to regard it as the foundation of postwar Japanese architecture. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (Main Building) is not only a symbolic landmark in the Peace Memorial City of Hiroshima but also a monumental work of architecture.
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