Places of Modern Architecture to Visit: 42
21-21 Design Sight | Tadao Ando Architect & AssociatesTokyo Midtown is the home of Design Sight 21-21, a design gallery/workshop created by fashion designer Issey Miyake and architect Tadao Ando. “The idea was to create not only a […] |
Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center | In the corner premise of just 326m2 across Kaminari-mon Gate, the building was required to accommodate plural programs such as tourist information center, conference room, multi-purpose hall and an exhibition […] |
Christian Dior Omotesando | The Dior building is a showcase for Dior’s designs, a fairly straightforward trapezoid box in Tokyo’s center of fashion, Omotesando Avenue. While the box itself is unexciting – though modulated […] |
Comme des Garçons | The concept and interiors of this small, simple, and clean perfume shop in Paris were designed by Kawakubo, who created the Japanese fashion label of the same name. Elements of […] |
De Beers Ginza Building | The DE BEERS Ginza Building design is intended to reflect the sophisticated Ginza streetscape and fit appropriately into the dynamic context of ginza which is one of the most famous […] |
Dentsu Caretta at Shiodome | Dentsu’s new headquarters could have been simply a business investment. But the media giant made it an investment in community, using the complex to establish a new heart in Tokyo’s […] |
Dentsu Tower | ‘Architect Jean Nouvel writes: “Architecture begins in the interior, with the pleasure of living.” In a sense his skyscraper, built for the Japanese advertising giant, Dentsu, is an effort to […] |
Fuji Kindergarten | Fuji Kindergarten (aka The Roof House) Tachikawa, Tokyo,Japan, is perhaps World’s Lowest Height Building of modern era. With the kids in mind, the designers, Kashiwa Sato, Creative Director and Tezuka […] |
Gyre Shopping Complex | 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 […] |
HHstyle.com (casa) | The stretch between Omotesando and Harajuku in Tokyo may be one of the most architecturally interesting areas in the world at present. Although he has a bigger project in the […] |
International Library of Children’s Literature | The International Library of Children’s Literature, located in the Ueno Park, Tokyo opened in 2002. The Library supports the activities of local libraries, providing direct services for children as well […] |
Jiyu Gakuen Girls School | Jiyu Gakuen Girls School Myonichikan is the original building complex of Jiyu Gakuen, designed by renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Arata Endo, working as an assistant for Wright’s project […] |
K-Museum | Ever since the early seventeenth century when the village of Edo (now Tokyo) became the seat of the shogunal government, urban growth has been a process of transforming sea into […] |
Kabuki-Cho Tower | The Kabuki-Cho project provides a vivid example of a response to a very specific urban context – an area of small-scale streets close to Shinjuku commercial district. The site was […] |
La Collezione | La Collezione is a collection of independent boutiques, galleries, an exercise club and a residence, held together in a concrete mesh of simple, interconnected shapes: two rectangular boxes at a […] |
Louis Vuitton Omotesando | Jun Aoki designed the LV building in the image of a pile of trunks stacked at random. The trunks, each representing a unique space, are connected with a labyrinth of […] |
Luna Di Miele Omotesando Building | This is located in a highly fashionable district in the middle of Tokyo. The five-story building is occupied by a jewelry store on the first four floors and a salon […] |
Maison Hermès | A signature building: Maison Hermès, as this new flagship store designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop is called, consolidates the label”s corporate and retail operations into a single signature building at […] |
Musashino Art University Library | The Musashino Art University Library is in fact a library made of bookshelves. Sou Fujimoto’s vision of combining searchability and stroll ability into one system is translated into a spiral […] |
Natural Ellipse House | The architectural form of Natural Ellipse is very much a product of its unique environment. Wedged into the most vibrant shopping and entertainment district in Tokyo, the building acknowledges the […] |
Omotesando Hills | Omotesando Hills is a large shopping and residential development that occupies much of one side of Omotesando Avenue, Tokyo’s top fashion street. Any development on that scale in such a […] |
Prada Store (Epicenter) | Herzog and de Meuron 20032003 Prada’s Tokyo “epicenter”, in the fashionable Aoyama district, is the company’s second radical approach to fashion-store architecture, following Rem Koolhaas’ flagship store in New York. […] |
Roppongi Hills Mori Tower | The largest private-sector urban redevelopment in Japan’s history, Roppongi Hills is one of the most influential mixed‐use neighborhoods in the world and a model for urban development. Offering a unique […] |
Shibuya Station Extension | Tadao Ando’s new Shibuya Station extension is all about making travel fun again. “A station should be a place where visitors think “I was glad to come to this station” […] |
Shinjuku Mitsui Building | The Shinjuku Mitsui Building is a high-rise building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo. It is owned by Mitsui Fudosan. It is the one the 10 tallest buildings in Tokyo, and was […] |
Shutter House for a Photographer | This project is built for a photographer and his family as a residence and a photographer studio. It belongs to a series of buildings realized with shutters. The land is […] |
St. Mary’s Cathedral of Tokyo | St. Mary’s Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo. It is located in the Sekiguchi neighborhood of Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. © Edmund Sumner The original structure […] |
Sugamo Shinkin Bank (Tokiwadai Branch) | We handled the architectural and interior design by basing around “leaf”. The facade of the building features silhouettes of trees and an assortment of 14 colors windows arranged in a […] |
Tama Art University Library | Seeing the arches lining the face of Toyo Ito’s Tama Art University Library may remind someone of classical and classically-influenced architecture–the Palazzo Rucellai, for instance, or any of H.H. Richardson’s designs. […] |
The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures | The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, one of the museum buildings in the Tokyo National Museum complex in Ueno Park, replaces an existing building on the same site that had served […] |
The Ice Cubes | This project was commissioned by a Hong Kong-based developer for whom we previously designed two high-end retail projects (in Akasaka and Omotesando). The site constraints, including sky-openness factor (tenku-ritsu) and […] |
The Jewels of Aoyama | This project is a formation of two different buildings; the main building has a limestone curtainwall façade of slit-windows that angles rhythmically like a folding screen, and in contrast to […] |
The National Art Center | The National Art Center, Tokyo is a museum in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. A joint project of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the National Museums Independent Administrative Institution, it […] |
The National Museum of Western Art | The National Museum of Western Art, one of three museums designed by Le Corbusier according to his prototype for a “museum of unlimited growth”, was originally established to house and […] |
Tod’s Omotesando Building | Tod’s is a substantial L-shaped building that needed to make the most of its narrow facade on Omotesando Avenue, Tokyo’s most prestigious shopping street. Ito’s innovative structure does this through […] |
Tokyo Big Sight | Tokyo Big Sight is the popular nickname for the Tokyo International Exhibition Center, a Japanese convention center that opened in April 1996. Located in the Ariake district on Tokyo Bay, […] |
Tokyo Denki University | To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the founding of Tokyo Denki University, the Tokyo Senju Campus was established in April of 2012. Not only does the campus provide state-of-the-art facilities […] |
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building | © Praveer Sharma | CC BY-SA 2.0 The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building also referred to as Tochō for short, houses the headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which governs not […] |
Tokyo Skytree | Tokyo Skytree is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010 and reached its full height of 634.0 metres in […] |
Tokyo Tower | Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower located in the Shiba-koen district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. At 332.9 metres, it is the second-tallest structure in Japan. The structure is […] |
TV Asahi Headquarters | The new Television Asahi Headquarters occupies a section of Roppongi Hills. On the north side, where the garden of the former Mouri residence was located, a new Japanese garden has […] |
Yoyogi National Gymnasium | Yoyogi National Gymnasium is an arena in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan which is famous for its suspension roof design. It was designed by Kenzo Tange and built between 1961 and […] |