(Dick Thomas Johnson– flickr/creative commons license) Yamashita Sekkei designed the Sotobori Building for Hosei University in Tokyo, completed in Februrary 2007. It has 8 floors and 21,937m² area. The building is named after the remains of Edo castle’s large moat. …
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(Dick Thomas Johnson– flickr/creative commons license) Richard Rogers designed the Nittele Tower for Nippon Television in Minato, Tokyo, completed in 2003. It is 192m tall. Circulation is pushed out to either end of the thin site and glazing on either …
(Dick Thomas Johnson– flickr/creative commons license) Yu Design includes the Toho Cinema in Roppongi Hills among their list of works. The Roppongi Hills development was completed in 2003 at a cost of $4 billion dollars and includes the Mori Tower, …
(Dick Thomas Johnson– flickr/creative commons license) Taisei designed the Yoyogi Seminer Main School building in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. It was completed in 2008. The skyscraper is divided in half. The lower half features a hanging garden and classrooms, and the …
Makoto Sei Watanabe’s Induction Design: A Method for Evolutionary Design discusses the emerging paradigm of evolutionary computation in engineering. In this book, Watanabe explains the idea behind his Iidabashi station project in Tokyo, Japan. Watanabe says architecture is like a …
(Guwashi999– flickr/creative commons license) Tadao Ando designed the University of Tokyo’s Fukutake Hall at the Hongo Campus, completed in March 2008. The thin linear site acted as a buffer between the dense city and the college campus. Historic Japanese buildings, …
(kentamabuchi– flickr/creative commons license) Kazuhiro Kojima+Kazuko Akamatsu / CAt designed the Uto Primary School 宇土小学校 in Kumamoto, Japan. It was completed in 2011. The overall scheme appears like a Californian apartment building, with raised walkways that criss-cross to stacked units. …
(IQRemix– flickr/creative commons license) Creative Designers International designed the Audi Forum Tokyo Omotesando avenue in Takyo, Japan. It is also called “the iceburg” because of its crystalline form and soaring height. A clear glazed chimney is surrounded by angled glazing …
(kentamabuchi– flickr/creative commons license) Toyo Ito designed the Ken Iwata Mother and Child Museum and next-door Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture in Imabari City, Ehime Japan. 今治市伊東豊雄建築ミュージアム / シルバーハット The parallel barrel vaulted ceilings are similar to Louis Kahn’s Forth …