Japón - Mimoa

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Japón - Mimoa
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Japón
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16-Dec-09
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Gyre Shopping Center
Tokyo, Japan
MVRDV
shopping centre
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C1 House
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Tokyo Towers Lounge
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Dior Omotesando
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Prada Aoyama epicenter
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National Art Center
Tod's Omotesando Building
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Maison Hermès
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Garden House
Chichu Art Museum
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Acrylic House
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Lucent Tower Kaleidoscopic Garden
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C-2 House
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Koumi, Japan
Curiosity
private house
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Matsudai
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Matsudai-cho, Japan
MVRDV
community centre, culture, exposition
space, theatre
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Matsudai Small Tower
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Tokamachi-shi, Japan
Périphériques Architectes
belvedere, sculpture, watch-tower
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Tokyo, Japan
Renzo Piano
office, shop, workshop
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Yokohama, Japan
Foreign Office Architects
ferry terminal, promenade, underground
parking
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Nagoya, Japan
Périphériques Architectes
art, passage
Tokyo, Japan
Toyo Ito
office, retail, shop
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Tokyo, Japan
Kisho Kurokawa
exposition space, museum
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Yokohama International Passenger
Terminal
Fuji Kawaguchiko-machi, Japan
Takeshi Hosaka architects
private house
Tokyo, Japan
Herzog and De Meuron
shop, showroom
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Tokyo, Japan
SANAA
commercial space, shop
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Naoshima, Japan
Tadao Ando
museum
Tokyo, Japan
Curiosity
apartment
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Tokyo, Japan
Curiosity
private house
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21st Century Museum of Contemporary
Art
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Kanazawa, Japan
SANAA
culture, library, museum
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Yokohama, Japan
Takeshi Hosaka architects
private house
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Gyre Shopping Center
Address
Omotesando street 5-10-1 Jingumae
Shibuya-ku Tokyo
Japan
http://gyre-omotesando.com/
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This a new retail building on Omotesando street in Tokyo
designed by Dutch architects MVRDV. Gyre, also known as The
Swirl, is generated from five identical rectangular floor plates
that are rotated on a vertical axis and then trimmed to fit the
site on Omotesando street. Besides the big names and ground
floor tenants, Chanel and Bulgari, the building will house the first
Asian branch of the MoMA Design Store and a large shop for Martin
Margiela. Higher up there are smaller shops like a hair dress
salon, an exclusive watch shop etc. The top levels contain a
series of different restaurants. The interiors of the shops are
designed by the different tenants. From the Gyre website: “A
building in the shape of a gyre is a body in motion, with a
magnetism that exudes energy. Our hope is to become an
incubator of a new way of shopping, thoughtfully, in a way that
becomes a force for good. GYRE connects with your and connects
you to the world.”
photo: Rob 't Hart
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Project is public!
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Completion
Floor area/size
10-2007
8950 m²
Architect
MVRDV
Building physics consultant Takenaka Corporation
Client
Mitsubishi Corporation UBS Realty
Contributed by
Opening hours
Email [email protected] for more information.
MVRDV
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How to get there
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photo: Daici Ano
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photo: Daici Ano
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C1 House
Address
Tomigaya 2-13-16 Shibuya-ku
151-0063 Tokyo
Japan
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The basic architectural design, a glass box surrounded by a
walkway-gallery that connects the floors, was designed before
the land was found. The basic design include from the beginning
all the aspects of the project, from the shape of the building to
the design of light switches and furniture. Usually an architecture
projects is developed in a sequence, building, interior furniture,
products, making it is difficult to be totally homogenous. To
achieve a weightless architectural space we use 25mm steel slabs
as floor. This is equivalent to a line in the architectural scale.
The scale of furniture and architecture become the same. From
the slope, the interior is visible from floor level to ceiling level
the top of a table is as visible as the bottom, a real 3d interior, a
very difficult challenge. Using 3d animations and models the
sequences of the interior were checked from all angles. c-1 is
not a minimalist house on the contrary, it is expressionism.
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Project is not public!
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Completion
2005
Main designer, Architect
Architect
Curiosity
Milligram Studio
Contributed by
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photo: Daici Ano
Opening hours
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How to get there
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photo: Daici Ano
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photo: Daici Ano
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Tokyo Towers Lounge
Address
Kachidoki 6-3-1 Chuo-Ku
Tokyo
Japan
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Tokyo is a city of contrast and discovery. The ‘ttt’ guest room in
the new build tower expresses the emotions of walking through
Tokyo. 3 emotions are the characteristics of the space:
reflection, contrast & harmony. Reflections: the modern Tokyo is
a gallery of mirrors, building and windows reflect each other
creating a virtual city, what is real, what is a reflection what is
digital. People appear and disappear between buildings, life
become a game in a maze of images. Within the complexity and
craze of Tokyo, a subtle harmony exist, a combination of
tradition and futuristic simplicity. The “harmony” guest room,
recreates this balance with the use of sakura pink glass. The pink
glass layer composes the interior, creating a strange but familiar
feeling. Contrast: The lounge is a double floor high space, with a
large lighting suspended from the ceiling. The strong green color
of the glass simulates the nature of a digital garden unexpected
to be found on the 54th floor of a high tower.
photo: Daici Ano
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Public access unknown!
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Completion
2008
Architect
Curiosity
Contributed by
curiosity
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photo: Frankss
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photo: Viditocho
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Dior Omotesando
Address
Omotesando Street 5-9-11
Jingumae Shibuya-ku Tokyo
Japan
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Omotesando Street is an avenue in Tokyo and home to many
upscale shops featuring several international brand outlets.
Hence, the street is sometimes referred to as 'Tokyo's
Champs-Élysées'. On this prime location, Japanese architect duo
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, known collectively as SANAA,
has designed the building that accommodates a store for fashion
retailer Dior. The building is gift-wrapped in a translucent skin
that allows the building underneath to show through. The effect
is achieved by using clear glass on the outside and a second
displaced layer of translucent acrylic on the inside.
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Project is public!
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Completion
2003
Architect
Client
SANAA
Dior
Contributed by
viditocho
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photo: Viditocho
Opening hours
Daily from 10.00 - 18.00.
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How to get there
The exact address is: Jingumae 5-9-11, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Tokyo
Prefecture 150 0001.
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photo: Olivier van den Hoven
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photo: Yann Martin
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Prada Aoyama epicenter
Address
Minami-Aoyama 5-2-6
107-0062 Tokyo
Japan
http://www.prada.com/
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Haute couture and star architecture have grown to understand
each other rather well in the recent years. Major fashion brands
distinguish themselves by inviting world leading architects to
indulge themselves in the design of flagshipstores and
extravagant showrooms. The highest density worldwide of such
state of the art showpieces can arguably be found on and around
Tokyo's Omotesando. One of the most impressive contributions to
this phenomenon is the Prada 'epicenter'. This 33 meter high
building has a façade like a membrane which is built out of wedge
shaped elements that frame flat, convex and concave windows.
These element also form the outer structure of the building.
Closed horizontal bracings not only make the frame rigid, but also
house the more private dressing rooms within this transparent
building. Everything about the building tells us that money was
not an issue. But perhaps the most costly design choice of all was
to leave a large part of the expensive plot un-built.
photo: Olivier van den Hoven
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Completion
Floor area/size
6-2003
2860 m²
Architect
Lighting designer
Associate architect
Client
Herzog and De Meuron
ARUP
Takenaka Corporation
Prada Japan Co Ltd
Contributed by
olivier_van_den_hoven
Opening hours
opened daily from 11am till 8pm (also on Sundays)
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How to get there
the Omotesando metrostation is on the Ginza line, the Chiyoda
line and the Hanzoumon line. Take exit A3 and walk into the
street called Minami-Aoyama. after a short walk you get to the
Prada epicenter.
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photo: Frankss
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photo: Frankss
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National Art Center
Address
Roppongi, Minato-ku 7-22-2
06-8558 Tokyo
Japan
http://www.nact.jp
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The National Art Center in Tokyo was designed in a collaborative
project between the architect Kisho Kurokawa and Nihon Sekkei,
Inc. It was built on the former site of the Institute of Industrial
Science of the University of Tokyo over a period of nearly four
years, from July 2002 to May 2006, with factors such as the
environment and earthquake safety in mind. The National Art
Center is a unique and innovative art exhibition facility: Instead
of maintaining a permanent collection, it makes the most of a
total of 14,000 square meters of exhibition space, the largest in
Japan, and focuses on serving as a venue for various art
exhibitions.
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Project is public!
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Completion
Floor area/size
2007
48000 m²
Architect
Associate architect
Kisho Kurokawa
Nihon Sekkei
Contributed by
Naomi
photo: Thomas Brown
Opening hours
Exhibitions organized by The National Art Center, Tokyo or
co-organized with other institutions: Mo, Wed, Thurs, Sat, Sun:
10:00 - 18:00. Friday: 10;00 - 20:00. Tuesday: closed.
Artist
associations' exhibitions:
Mo, Wed, Thurs, Sat, Sun: 10:00
a.m.–6:00 p.m.
(visitors must enter by 5:30 p.m.)
Tuesday:
Closed
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How to get there
Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line: Nogizaka Station, Exit 6 is directly
linked to the Center. Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line: Roppongi Station,
5-minute walk from Exit 4a. Toei Oedo Subway Line: Roppongi
Station, 4-minute walk from Exit 7.
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photo: Frankss
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Tod's Omotesando Building
Address
Jingumae 5-1-15
Shibuya-ku Tokyo
Japan
http://www.tods.com/
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Toyo Ito’s Tod’s Omotesando Building is a slender, L-shaped
building for the Italian footwear retailer, it contains offices and a
boutique fronting Omotesando, Tokyo’s famous four-lane,
tree-lined boulevard that in recent years has become the city’s
showplace for luxury brands and top architects. The seven-storey
building continues Ito's exploration of ideas of surface, the
dramatic structure mimicking the shapes of the tall elm trees
that stretch along Omotesando Avenue and reinterprets them in
its façade as a series of crisscrossing geometric forms. The façade
is a smooth blend of concrete and glass and materials are kept
simple. The structural frame that supports the building is well
concealed. Inside, opaque glass hides the rear view so that
shoppers are drawn to the front of the store where they play an
important role in animating the building. (text from RIBA Royal
Gold Medal 2006 award).
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Completion
Floor area/size
12-2004
2449 m²
Architect
Technical engineer
Lighting designer
Structural engineer
Contractor
Client
Toyo Ito
ES Associates
Lightdesign Inc.
Oak Structural Design Office
Takenaka Corporation
Holpaf B.V.
Contributed by
MI_MOA
photo: Luis Villa del Campo
Opening hours
tel + 81 364192055
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How to get there
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photo: Nazar Leskiw
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photo: Thom Mckenzie
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Maison Hermès
Address
Ginza 4-1
104-0061 Tokyo
Japan
http://jp.hermes.com/
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Maison Hermès, Tokyo, by Renzo Piano is the corporate
headquarters and retail store for Hermès Japan. The program
includes offices, workshops, retail and exhibition spaces,
multimedia areas and a roof garden. The building also includes
access to the subway via a courtyard which divides the long
façade in two. It is an elegant, glowing, rectangular form which
has been carefully crafted from specially designed 45cm x 45cm
glass blocks which give the impression of the building as a
precious object containing equally precious objects. Renzo Piano
stated that the building was inspired by traditional Japanese
lanterns. The thickness of the glass façade blurs the activity
within during the day and at night the building glows from the
light within whilst simultaneously providing acoustic insulation
from the bustling Ginza streets outside. Clear glass boxes become
display cases for Hermès products at street level.
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Project is public!
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Completion
Floor area/size
2001
6000 m²
Architect
Client
Renzo Piano
Hermès
Contributed by
thom
photo: Thom Mckenzie
Opening hours
Monday - Sunday: 10.00 - 19.00 / Wednesday: closed.
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How to get there
Take the Hibiya, Marunouchi or Ginza line to Ginza subway
station in central Tokyo.
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photo: Amanda Prior
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photo: Amanda Prior
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Garden House
Address
Takinoue 21-1
2310837 Naka-ku Yokohama
Japan
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This is a house consisting of indoor and outdoor spaces. The
clients are a married couple. Their request: “We want a house in
which we feel as if we are outdoors.” While there is no clear
boundary between the indoor and outdoor in terms of the
construction of a house, it offers uninterrupted experiences and
similar dimensions, structures, finishes, and furniture density.
Although the indoor and outdoor are different environments, all
the more reason it is fun if there are both the indoor dining and
outside dining. You can sleep on the comfortable bed outdoors
for a short sleep. When thinking like this, I feel that a living in
which you can do various things indoors and outdoors is possible.
I aimed to design a house in which its dwellers feel at ease as if
the whole house looks like a garden. I thought that I'll try to
design a house where the scenes of living expand to both indoor
and outdoor.
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Project is not public!
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Completion
Floor area/size
10-2007
114 m²
Architect
Takeshi Hosaka architects
Contributed by
Takeshi_Hosaka
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photo: Amanda Prior
Opening hours
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How to get there
It is a place 40 minutes away from Tokyo on the train.
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photo: Vidal Coro
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photo: Yann Martin
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Yokohama International Passenger
Terminal
Address
Osanbashi Pier 1-1-4 Kaigan-dori Naka-ku
Yokohama
Japan
http://www.osanbashi.com
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The Yokohama International Passenger Terminal is situated on
Osanbashi Pier, which was originally constructed between 1889
and 1896 and is Yokohama's oldest pier. The project is a nexus
between the city and the bay. The site had a pivotal role along
the city's waterfront that, if declared a public space, would
present Yokohama City with a continuous structure of open public
spaces along the waterfront. The building is produced as an
extension of the urban ground, constructed as a systematic
transformation of the lines of the circulation diagram into a
folded and bifurcated surface. These folds produce a roof garden
with covered surfaces where the different parts of the program
can be hosted.
photo: Vidal Coro
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Completion
Floor area/size
2002
438243 m²
Architect, Landscape
architect
Services engineer
Structural engineer
Client
Foreign Office Architects
Contributed by
viditocho
PT Morimura & Associates
Structural Design Group
The City of Yokohama + Port
Authority
Opening hours
The interior of the terminal building and parking space: 09:00 21:30 / The roof garden is open 24/7.
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How to get there
By public transportation: from Tokyo, take Keihin-Tohoku Line of
JR to Kannai Station. From here, the Ferry Terminal is a 10
minute walk.
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Chichu Art Museum
Address
Kagawa 761-3110
3449-1 Naoshima
Japan
http://www.chichu.jp/e/
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The Chichu Art Museum is designed by Tadao Ando and is located
on a small island south of the main island of Japan. It's very
unknown by tourists; only Japanese people know about it. The
Art Museum is embedded in the hilly landscape of the island; from
the sky only rectangular forms are visible, which gives the
museum an mysterious character. Inside the routing is so that you
only experience views at the sky, or, in the restaurant, the
beautiful scenery of the island coast. The museum is built only
in concrete, which gives it a solid expression. There are several
art projects inside, the one even more amazing than the other.
Note that every piece of art is only accessible by wearing
slippers, offered by the futuristic dressed girls in white clothes.
photo: Fujitsuka Mitsumasa
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Project is public!
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Completion
Floor area/size
6-2004
2574 m²
Architect
Tadao Ando
Contributed by
jeooren
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Opening hours
10 am to 6 pm (last entry by 5 pm) March 1 to September 30. 10
am to 5 pm (last entry by 4 pm) October 1 to the end of
February. Tel: +81-(0)87-892-3755
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How to get there
By boat from the port of Uno, south of Okayama in the west of
Japan. The boat only costs about €1,50.
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photo: Sergio Pirrone
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photo: Sergio Pirrone
Acrylic House
Address
Fuji Kawaguchiko-machi
Japan
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This building is a house for a couple and their three children in
Japan. The boundary between inside and outside has been made
as 'transparent' as possible by using continuous boundaries that
don’t have joints or mullions by using heat-insulating,
20mm-thick acrylic boards. Usually, life inside the house and life
in the garden are one continuous experience, but now that the
inside and the garden are divided only by the extremely
transparent, continuous boundaries with no joints, it feels like
they are more intermingled than before.
photo: Sergio Pirrone
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Project is not public!
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Completion
Floor area/size
2007
104 m²
Architect
Takeshi Hosaka architects
Contributed by
Takeshi_Hosaka
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Opening hours
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How to get there
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photo: Luc Boegly
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photo: Luc Boegly
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Lucent Tower Kaleidoscopic Garden
Address
Ushijima-cho, Lucent Tower 1
451-6040 Nagoya
Japan
http://www.lucent-tower.jp/
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The aim of this project is to give pleasure by moving around the
space and searching a different point of view at every time, a new
spatial sensation, a renewed atmosphere. The intervention offers
a series of principal architectural objectives: change the
perception of the space in order to get a wider open space;
generate a common matrix for the new installations; set the
flexible space using mirror panels and reflective materials; offer
a flexible atmosphere according to the treatment of light. The
floor is composed by modular panels, made out of glass, a metal
structure and a light system, and it is able to change the colour
and intensity of the light. The light is controlled by specific
software which, according to the programming, will generate
various atmospheres depending on the hour of day and night.
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Completion
Floor area/size
1-2007
450 m²
Architect, Artist, Interior
architect, Landscape
architect, Urban planner
Client
Périphériques Architectes
Contributed by
photo: Luc Boegly
Toshio Shimizu Art Office for Lucent
Tower
Opening hours
peripheriques
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How to get there
Nagoya station / At the bottom of the Lucent Tower.
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photo: Gwenael Nicolas
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photo: Gwenael Nicolas
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C-2 House
Address
Koumi
Japan
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When approaching, the house appears like a huge abstract shape
rising from the ground, with its shaped angle following the steep
angle of the land. It seems to be sliding on the ground, a sense of
tension and movement is expressed. The strong angle of the
house was also guided by the requirement of winter conditions,
the heavy load of snow slides from the roof. So entering the
house from the covered bridge you find yourself into a huge
simple single room (6m high ceiling). Like a mini loft in the
middle of the forest, it is unexpected and refreshing. For a
second you forget you are in the middle of a forest. The light
seems to be coming from everywhere, between the ceiling and
the walls, the volumes are enlightened by long invisible windows,
it has almost a religious feel creating a peaceful and relaxing
atmosphere. The changes of the light outside create subtle
changes in the interior all day long: natural lighting become the
artist of a live performance.
photo: Gwenael Nicolas
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Project is not public!
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Completion
2006
Architect
Curiosity
Contributed by
curiosity
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Opening hours
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photo: Rob 't Hart
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photo: Rob 't Hart
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Matsudai
Address
Matsudai Ooaza 3743-1
Matsudai-cho
Japan
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Matsudai is located in the mountains, summers are hot and humid
and during winters the region is covered under a thick layer of
snow. MVRDV built here a cultural centre, a village museum.
Every 3 years the centre will be used as the main stage for the
regional Echigo-Tsumari art festival. By lifting the building,
creates a snow free zone in winter and a dry and shaded plaza
during summer,which can be used as a playground or as a space
for performances. The building is supported by 'legs' that give
access to people coming from different directions, The leg-spaces
are free from the weather conditions and cut through the
building dividing the different functional spaces. On the rooftop,
a 'rocky' landscape is formed, shaped by the dynamic demands of
the leg-shaped bridges. This roof landscape provides an attractive
viewing platform. It might also reminds summer visitors of the
wintertime, when Matsudai will be hidden under a massive layer
of snow.
photo: Rob 't Hart
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Project is public!
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Completion
2003
Architect
Client
MVRDV
Art Front Gallery Tokyo & City of
Matsudai
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Contributed by
Opening hours
MVRDV
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How to get there
Matsudai can be reached by train (Matsudai station on the
Hoku-Hoku Line) or by car (National Road 253). Matsudai is a
town located in Higashikubiki District, 'Higashikubiki-gun', in the
prefecture Niigata, Japan. Matsudai is now absorbed into the new
city of Tokamachi.
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photo: Périphériques architectes
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photo: Périphériques architectes
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Matsudai Small Tower
Address
Oaza Kitashinden 1-10
948-0036 Tokamachi-shi
Japan
http://www.echigo-tsumari.jp/artworks/index_en.php?id=275
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In the framework of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal in the north
of Japan, the Art Front Gallery, which organized the event,
commissioned an installation from the architects. They proposed
a project that plays with the landscape, the winter snow (which
can reach 7 metres or 23 feet!), the vistas, and the trekking that
visitors do. In this exhibition, the works were spread throughout a
series of quite wild, sparsely populated valleys. The Matsudai
Small Tower is an installation that presents two functions in a
tower covered with a grid of galvanized steel: a point of view on
the site in the hieratic pose of a weird-looking animal, and a
space that plays with the snow and the treetops, and affords
campers three platforms of duckboards for an 'experimental
night'.
photo: Périphériques architectes
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Project is public!
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Completion
Floor area/size
7-2003
200 m²
Architect, Artist, Interior
architect, Landscape
architect, Urban planner
Client
Périphériques Architectes
Contributed by
peripheriques
Art Front Gallery
Opening hours
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How to get there
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http://www.mimoa.eu/users/anitapona/Guides/Jap%C3%B3n/
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photo: Blaise Fontaine
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photo: Blaise Fontaine
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21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art
Address
Hirosaka 1-2-1
920-8509 Kanazawa
Japan
http://www.kanazawa21.jp/en/
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The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art stands in the
center of Kanazawa, on a site linking together diverse but equally
important city functions. Circular in form, with a diameter of
112.5 meters, the building has no front or back, leaving it free to
be explored from all directions. While being a reaction to the
accessibility of the site from multiple points of entry, as well as
to its breadth, the circularity of the plan also works in concert
with keeping the overall building volume low, to effectively
mitigate the scale of the project and an overly grand presence
common to large institutions. In order to further encourage the
multiplicity of approaches, the architects have intentionally
resisted establishing a primary façade or entrance. Besides the
museum, the cultural centre houses a library, restaurant, theatre
and exhibition spaces (text from project's website).
photo: Blaise Fontaine
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Project is public!
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Completion
Floor area/size
2004
9500 m²
Architect
Client
SANAA
Kanazawa City
Contributed by
Julialala
Opening hours
Public space: 09.00 - 22.00 every day. Exhibition galleries:
Monday - Thursday & Sunday: 10.00 - 18.00. Friday & Saturday:
10.00 - 20.00. Café: 10.00 - 20.00 every day.
How to get there
From Kanazawa Station, take a bus to Kenokuen Garden, stop at
the 'Korinbo' bus stop.
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http://www.mimoa.eu/users/anitapona/Guides/Jap%C3%B3n/
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