3 articles tagged “Tower”
A 180-meter steel lattice tower completed in 1954 in Sakae, Naka Ward, Nagoya — Japan's first completed television broadcasting tower. Designed by structural engineer Naito Tachu and set within Hisaya Odori Park, it has served since 2021 under the name Chubu Electric Power MIRAI TOWER.
Completed October 1956, Tsutenkaku is the iconic tower of the Shinsekai district in Osaka. Standing 103 m tall (108 m with lightning rod), 5 stories above ground and 1 below. Structural design by Tachu Naito; construction by Okumura Gumi. Registered as a national tangible cultural property.
Standing 108 metres tall in Kobe's Meriken Park since 1963, this red hyperboloid tower — the world's first all-pipe-structure building — was renovated and reopened in April 2024 as a renewed observation facility.