Some Of The Famous Works Of Hara Hiroshi.
1. The Kyoto Railway Station o The Kyoto Railway station is a major transportation hub and important railway station in Kyoto, Japan. It is famous because it has Japan’s one of the largest buildings and is the country’s second largest station building. o The magnificent building houses within itself, shopping malls, hotels, departmental stores, movie theatres, several government offices and facilities under a fifteen storey structure. o Kyoto was considered to be one of the least modern cities of Japan. Such an ambitious and huge structure such as this station brought in a new wave of high rise structure to his city.
2. The Umeda Sky Building o Umeda Sky Building is one of the famous landmarks of the city of Osaka. It comprises of two 40 story structures. These structures are connected at the top with bridges. o The wide atrium like space in the center also has an escalator crossing across it. It was a huge project and is considered to be an art in itself. o The Umeda Sky building has a roof top observatory, called The floating Observatory. It also houses an underground market. o The base of the building has been decorated with garden and walking trails.
3. The Sapporo Dome o The Sopporo Dome is a stadium for association football and baseball and is situated in Sapporo, Japan.This stadium has already been planned as a venue for 2020 Summer Olympics, 2017 Asian Winter Games opening and closing ceremonies, and 2019 Rugby World Cup.
o What is so interesting about this structure is that it can switch between two entirely different surfaces. Football games are played on grass, and these fields can slide in and out as required. o The Baseball is played on an artificially created turf field. Due to the retraction of seats during the switch over of the fields, the stadium capacity is around 40,000 approximately for baseball games. Painter Lulu Hoar, was absolutely captivated by the overwhelming structure of the Kyoto Station. What she found enigmatic was the idea, the thought that led Hiroshi Hara design this mammoth structure. Being a painter herself, she wanted to capture the Kyoto Station structure in her paintings. She found it captivating and invigorating. She has made a charcoal painting in an abstract form of the Kyoto station. She titles this as Homage to Hiroshi Hara. This painting is 4.5 feet tall. Along with her minor works, this Homage painting has been installed in the United Kingdom. Smaller architectural pieces are placed as three dimensional pieces of the Kyoto Station. She has used, Ink, Graphite and charcoal to draw the station. So the entire piece consists of both paintings and 3-D structures which give a very contemporary funky look to the drawing. If you too have some good art works like these to sell, and find it difficult to network your art, here is something that might fancy you!Some of the drawings and landscape paintings often have been applauded for their eccentric and sublime subjects that inspire millions. One such exceptional blog, Spiritual Healing that Leads to Inspirational Paintings is one such example!