Japan's Lost Modernist Icons Documented in New Architecture Book

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A new book collects photographs of Japanese buildings torn down since 2000, many of them striking examples of postwar modernist and metabolist architecture. The Guardian runs a selection of images from the book showing the structures in their prime.
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