San Francisco Peace Pagoda

Peace Pagoda, San Francisco, CA

The Peace Pagoda is a five-tiered concrete stupa between Post and Geary Streets at Buchanan in San Francisco's Nihonmachi (Japantown). The Pagoda, located in the northeastern corner of Peace Plaza between the Japan Center Mall and Nihonmachi Mall, was constructed in the 1960s and presented to San Francisco by its sister city Osaka, Japan on March 28, 1968.

It was designed by Japanese architect Yoshiro Taniguchi.

Plaque transcription: The Peace Pagoda Presented in friendship to the people of the United States by the people of Japan March 28, 1968

Peace Pagodas

Main article: Peace Pagoda

A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa; a monument to inspire peace, designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds, and to help unite them in their search for world peace.

The Architect Yoshiro Taniguchi

Yoshiro Taniguchi is a noted Japanese modernist architect who designed the National Museum of Modern Art, the Imperial Theater and the Okura Hotel, all in Tokyo, all from the 1960s. He is the father of architect Yoshio Taniguchi, known for the 2004 redesign of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Graduate of the University of Tokyo.[1]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Making History Japan's architectural functionalist". Tokyo Tech Bulletin. Retrieved January 31, 2014.

Coordinates: 37°47′06″N 122°25′47″W / 37.785054°N 122.429827°W / 37.785054; -122.429827 (Peace Pagoda in San Francisco)

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