The Perfect Liberty Peace Tower
Tuesday, 19th August 2008 by James Turnbull
This bizarre tower is the Perfect Liberty Peace Tower in Tondabayashi, Japan, and from up here it looks like it might be constructed entirely from cotton-wool.
Completed in 1970 this incredibly oddly-shaped tower stands at 180 m, and was actually made by spraying concrete at a wire mesh. The irregular shape looks like a disaster waiting to happen, but is actually designed to be earthquake resistant thanks to its centre of gravity being set just 12 m above ground level.
The Peace Tower is part of the headquarters of Perfect Liberty, a "modern" religion whose motto is "Life is Art". Anyone can visit the tower, but apparently it's inadvisable as you will be approached to be "drawn into the religion". Perhaps for this reason, the Street View car kept its distance - the closest shot is from a passing motorway.
However, a local photographer has dared to venture up close, and has loads of pictures showing just how truly weird the tower is.
Thanks to adrbr.
That is one hideous tower. And I thought the one with all the freaky crawling babies was bad…
I though we were done with the obscure tower week. Weren’t we?
It looks like it’s made out of marshmallows.
It looks like it would melt in a good rainstorm.
“Precept” nr 6 of the PL church: “Man’s true self is revealed when his ego is effaced” – I wonder how building a 180m high tower corresponds to that?
It’s really quite ugly alien looking, reminds me of ant mounds
This is a sculpture reproduced into a tower dedicated to world peace. Inside are contained, in micro-fiche, the names of everybody whoever died in a war. This is a church whose motto is , as was said, Life is Art, and believes that war is not the answer to any question. It is simply not true that you will “approached to be drawn into the religion” if you go to visit the tower. It is a non-denominational church whose teachings do not conflict with any other religion. Who would have a problem with any of that?