# Kengo Kuma’s M2 Building and The Sublime Strangeness of Tokyo’s Bubble Era

- Published: 2026-06-12
- Topic: Blogs
- Source: Architectural Icons Stories by Architectural Icons

Few structures capture the unhinged, delirious architectural optimism of Japan's late-twentieth-century economic boom quite like the M2 Building. Completed in 1991 in the Setagaya ward of...

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