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HONOLULU, HAWAII 2013
HONOLULU, HAWAII 2015
TOKYO, JAPAN 2018
(3) Nittele Tower by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners: Built in 2003 as a new 115,000 m2 headquaters building for Nippon Television. The 185 m high complex includes an art gallery, shops, restaurants and public space at ground level that is integrated into a redevelopment masterplan containing buildings designed by Keven Roche and Jean Nouvel. (4) Caretta SHIODOME + Dentsu Building by Jean Nouvel: Built in 1998 as a multipurpose complex. It is divided into three zones. The bottom three floors simulate a waterfall flowing down through a canyon, the spiraling stairwell leads to restaurants, cafes and the theater. While Nittele Tower proposed a huge skeleton structure as an exterior design, Caretta SHIODOME uses big scaled stairs to connect with its surrounding. The view on the right is on a pathway, which is at forth floor level, but the building doesn’t look that tall until I look down to the bottom.
(5) Nagakin Capsule by Kisho Kurokawa: Built in 1972 as the first capsule architecture design. The module was created with the intention of housing traveling businessmen that worked in central Tokyo during the week. It is a prototype for architecture of sustainability and recycleability, as each module can be plugged into the central core and replaced or exchanged when necessary. It has a total of 140 capsules which are stacked and rotated at varying angles around a central core, standing 14 stories high. Each unit is small, but they are all connected together to create a huge structure. The stack, is randomly arranged, creates an interesting look.
(6) Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center by Kenzo Tange: Built in 1967, the center gave Tange a chance to materialize his Metabolist ideals, which called for a new urban typology that could self perpetuate in an organic, vernacular, “metabolic“ manner. The narrow, 189 m2, triangular site inspired Tange to design a vertical structure, consisting of a main infrastructure core, which could develop into an urban magestructure (a term coined by a fellow Metabolist, Japanese architect Fumuhiko Maki), into which an ever growing number of prefabricated capsules could be “plugged in.“
(8) Ginza Six by Yoshio Taniguchi and Associates: Built in 2017, Ginza Six is also home to a rooftop garden, a food hall, and the Kanze Noh Theater, which will showcase the traditional Japanese masked musical dramas. In collaboration with the Mori Art Museum, the building will display permanent and temporary public art installations. Living Canyon, a vertical garden, by Patrick Blanc was planted with native greenery. Measuring approximately 4,000 square meters, GINZA SIX Garden is the largest rooftop garden open to the general public in the Ginza area. It is symbolic in environment felt nature close in city, and garden which we expressed provides rest and place of exchange to people who visited Ginza. I like how the nature was brought into this most busy district in Tokyo. The rooftop gives nice space for people enjoy the nature with native plants and blue sky. The large scale of opening space creates a park with nice and interesting sitting area and trees.
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK 2018
BERLIN, GERMANY 2018
AARGHUS, DENMARK 2018
ONE WEEK STUDY TOUR, SWEDEN AND FINLAND 2018
KYOTO, JAPAN 2019
SHANGHAI, CHINA 2019
HONOLULU, HAWAII 2020
BERKELEY, CA 2021
CHICAGO, IL 2021
HUDSON YARD, NY 2021
FORTH WORTH, TX 2021
SEATTLE, WA 2021
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