"The building is raised up on pillars, its structure a framework of exposed concrete. The complex as a whole has a monumental quality. There are two secondary buildings, one on either side, consisting of an auditoruim, a hotel, an exhibition gallery, a library, offices and a conference centre to the west, and an assembly hall with capacity for 2,500 people to the east....Together they form a kind of screen for the square of Peace, which extends to the north, in which up to 50,000 people can congregate around the monument to Peace. The monument...in the form of a hyperbolic parabola, brings together modern tendencies and techniques and the ancient form of the Haniwa, the traditional tombs of the rulers of old Japan."

— Udo Kultermann. Kenzo Tange: Works and Projects. p163-165.

The Creator's Words

" 'Inconsistency itself breeds vitality,'...The greatest overriding inconsistency is the one 'that arises from the confrontation of technology and human existence,...We live in a world where great incompatibles coexist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality. These are the reflections of the gap between advancing technology and humanity as historical existence...I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.'Ê"

— Kenzo Tange. from Robin Boyd. Kenzo Tange. p15.