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Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower

Nishi-Shinjuku, Japan

The 469th tallest building in the world

204 m · 669 ft

Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower (, Mōdo gakuen kokūn tawā) is a 204-metre-tall (669-foot), 50-story educational facility located in the Nishi-Shinjuku district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The building was designed by a team led by Paul Noritaka Tange, the son of Kenzo Tange. The building is home to three educational institutions: Tokyo Mode Gakuen (fashion vocational school), HAL Tokyo (special technology and design college), and Shuto Ikō (medical college). Completed in October 2008, the tower is the second-tallest educational building in the world and was the 17th-tallest building in Tokyo. It was awarded the 2008 Skyscraper of the Year by Emporis.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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