TOWER OF SILENCE

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Construction cost: Project stopped after Design Development
Architect & Designer: George Ranalli
project Architect: John Butterworth
Project Team: Giovanni Pagnotta, David John Rush

This project was commission by a major automobile manufacturer in Tokyo, Japan. The monument stands in the atrium space of a new office building, and the area around the void was designated as an automobile showroom. Tower of Silence is meant to express the most positive relationship possible between the viewers and this manufacturer. It is meant to stand as a symbol of the company and of the people who occupy it in that it is an inhabited monument, and it therefore, metaphorically, belongs to the people who use the rooms inside.