Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower is a skyscraper in the Nishi-Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan, completed in October 2008 as a home for three vocational schools run by the Mode Gakuen educational group, covering fashion, computing and medical care. It was designed by the architecture firm Tange Associates, and its elliptical, rounded form, with curved lines on the facade, was meant to look like a cocoon, symbolizing students who are preparing to emerge. It rises to about 204 meters and has some fifty floors, which made it one of the tallest educational buildings in the world. It has become one of the better-known modern buildings in Shinjuku's skyline.
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