The fire that in 1872 devastated an area of the city recently renamed Tokyo was seized by the Meiji government as an opportunity to implant on its streets the European-style model of modernization that it was trying to institute in the country. This
Contrary to expectations for a site that is home to so many luxury brands, Miyuki Street in Aoyama Tokyo is not particularly beautiful or elegant. The architecture is heterogeneous – a hodgepodge of freestanding buildings of different heights and sha
An anti-earhquake structure of crisscrossing larchwood beams form an origami-like space that opens on to a forest through a series of large glazed openings.
Two spiral staircases that meet 15.26 m above the ground give shape to the chapel, used for weddings; the structure absorbs vertical loads through pillars 10 cm in diameter and compensate the lateral ones with the mutual pressures of both helicoids..
The facade consists of two layers: a wall of reinforced concrete behind that incorporates windows, and a fine lattice made of traditional bricks that have been plastered and painted white.
Totally artisanal, the 6,000 solid blocks of strained glass that form the facade were perforated with a blowtorch and inserted through auxiliary pieces of steel in 74 tensors hung from an upper beam.
Situated on a commercial street of Tokyo, the building breaks with the area’s characterless image by means of a facade of faceted and seemingly random shapes that serve as a visual announcement. The envelope is formed by two layers separated by a cha
The initial observation of the site revealed two things: on the one hand, the extreme heterogeneity of the area freed from the need to meet any contextual requirements, and on the other, the site was surrounded by a low-rise type of building. No squa
Trazada hace ochenta años como recorrido procesional hacia el santuario Meiji, donde se honra al emperador que puso Japón en la senda de la modernidad, la avenida Omotesando cruza Tokio de este a oeste. La flanquean airosos ejemplares de zelkova u ol
