House in Muko / Fujiwarramuro Architects
Architects: Fujiwarramuro Architects
Location: Muko, Kyoto, Japan
Project Architects: Shintaro Fujiwara, Yoshio Muro
Area: 100.29 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano
Ailereve / Yasui Hideo Atelier
Architects: Yasui Hideo Atelier
Location: Kochi, Kochi
Architect In Charge: Yasui Hideo Atelier
Area: 18,202 sqm
Year: 2007
Photographs: Courtesy of Yasui Hideo Atelier
House in Hanoura / Fujiwarramuro Architects
Architects: Fujiwarramuro Architects
Location: Hanoura, Tokushima, Japan
Project Architects: Shintaro Fujiwara, Yoshio Muro
Area: 95.03 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano
Karuizawa Museum Complex / Yasui Hideo Atelier
Architects: Yasui Hideo Atelier
Location: Karuizawa, Japan
Area: 423 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Nacasa & Partners inc
‘The Twist’: Tokyo Olympic Stadium Competition Entry / MenoMenoPiu Architects + FHF Architectes
Designed as not only a sports stadium, but as a city fragment, the design by MenoMenoPiu Architects + FHF Architectes is an attractor: innovative and a generator of vitality. Given the name The Twist, their proposal for the Tokyo Olympic Stadium is expanding in order to better reach users’ requirements: proximity, diversity, and accessibility. Their conept, unlike other conventional stadiums, is an elliptical spiral which is gradually unrolling and forming. More images and architects’ description after the break.
AD Classics: Odate Dome / Toyo Ito
The Odate Dome in the Akita Prefecture of Japan was completed by Toyo Ito in June 1997. The project is another example of the architect’s impressive canon, making use of cutting edge technology and bringing architecture closer to people. Seemingly floating a few meters above the ground, the dome leaves space for the people to flow in comfortably, while the use of wood is itself a way of bringing nature into architecture while adopting the latest technological advancements.
House in Hakusan / Fujiwarramuro Architects
Architects: Fujiwarramuro Architects
Location: Ishikawa, Japan
Project Architects: Shintaro Fujiwara, Yoshio Muro
Area: 110.14 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano
AD Classics: Yatsushiro Municipal Museum / Toyo Ito
The city of Yatsushiro is known in Japan as a home for exemplary architecture – the legacy at least in part of Artpolis, a plan by the government of the Kumamoto Prefecture to seek out a range of talented architects to design cultural buildings in the cities of the region. Though the Artpolis scheme has been running for the past 22 years, perhaps its most successful building was completed back in 1991, with the construction of Toyo Ito‘s Yatsushiro Municipal Museum.
AD Classics: White U / Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito was commissioned for this building by his older sister after her husband sadly lost his battle with cancer in the 1970s. Having lived for a number of years in a high-rise apartment, she and her two young daughters wished to move to a site which had more connection to the ground; as luck would have it, the site next to Ito’s own house was being sold at the time.
House in Nada / Fujiwarramuro Architects
Architects: Fujiwarramuro Architects
Location: Nada, Hyogo, Japan
Project Architects: Shintaro Fujiwara, Yoshio Muro
Area: 63.33 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano
Video: A documentary on Toyo Ito’s Sendai Mediatheque
One of Toyo Ito’s most iconic building is undoubtedly the Sendai Mediatheque. The latest Pritzker laureate completed the building in 2001, a cultural media center allowing complete visibility and transparency to the surrounding community.
French director Richard Copans made this documentary on the Sendai Mediatheque that you can’t miss. You can watch part II and III after the break. And don’t forget to check our complete coverage on the 2013 Pritzker Prize winner.
AD Classics: Tower of Winds / Toyo Ito
The Tower of Winds is a project largely indicative of Toyo Ito’s approach to architecture, particularly his belief in the importance of technology and its vital role in the future of architecture. The project not only embraces technology and involves it in a dialogue with the city, but also establishes a direct symbolic relationship between nature and the installation.
Flashback: Sendai Mediatheque / Toyo Ito
With the intentions of designing a transparent cultural media center that is supported by a unique system to allow complete visibility and transparency to the surrounding community, the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito is revolutionary in it’s engineering and aesthetic.
Six steel-ribbed slabs slabs, each 15-3/4″ thick, appear to float from the street, supported by only thirteen vertical steel lattice columns that stretch from ground plane to the roof. This striking visual quality that is one of the most identifiable characteristics of the project is comprable to large trees in a forest, and function as light shafts as well as storage for all of the utilities, networks and systems.
More on the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito after the break.
Za Koenji Public Theatre / Toyo Ito by Iwan Baan
Once more, Iwan Baan shared with the Za Koenji Public Theatre by Toyo Ito in Tokyo, Japan. An impressive black volume in the middle of the city of Suginami in Tokyo and managed by Creative Theatre Network (CTN), a non-profit organization led by president Ren Saito.
You can see the complete photoset on Iwan’s website.
