(scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) Itsuko Hasegawa designed the Shiogama City Children’s Center, completed in 1998. More Info (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) …
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(TenSafeFrogs– flickr/creative commons license) Hiroshi Hara designed the Umeda Sky Building 梅田スカイビル in the Umeda district of Kita-ku, Osaka City Japan. The 173 m tall building was completed in 1993. Two towers are linked by criss-crossing skyways, with a urban …
(scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) Kengo Kuma designed the new building for the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts in Minato, Tokyo Japan, completed in 2009. Kenji Imai and Tachu Naito designed the original structure in 1954. The museum contains a private …
(scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) The 1935 Tokyo Municipal Takanawadai Elementary School in Minato-ku Takanawa was renovated in 2005 after fire and earthquake damage. Modern touches to the historic primary school include glass facades in front of public staircases, white concrete …
(midorisyu– flickr/creative commons license) Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects (FOA) designed the port of Yokohama on the northwest part of Tokyo Bay, for the World Cup in Yokohama. It was completed in 2002. The ferry pier …
(scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) Takaharu Tezuka and Yui Tezuka designed the school and museum of the forest on Mt. Kyororo in Niigata Japan. It was completed in 2003. (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) (scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) …
(ANGE URBAIN– flickr/creative commons license) Toyo Ito designed the Sendai Mediatheque in Japan, completed in 2001. Columns of steel tubes lattice up through thin 16 inch concrete slabs. This device allows visual connection as well as circulation devices. …
(naotakem– flickr/creative commons license) Peter Marino + Associates Architects designed the Chanel Ginza store in Tokyo Japan. Lighting devices are placed in steel mesh between layers of glass. LED lighting techniques are greatly enhanced by the complex curtain wall systems. …
(scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) SGM Architect & Associates designed the Toritsu-Daigaku Cooperative House at the Metropolitan University Koporatibuhausu, completed in 2008. The exterior is sensitive to the pedestrian paths, with the structure cantilevered over the front plaza. This …
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government designed the Tokyo Big Sight convention center in Japan. It opened in 1996. Similarly to the Ed-Tyokyo Museum, the pedestrian level is opened up by 4 massive towers that lift up the main building. It has …