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The Okura Tokyo / Taniguchi and Associates + TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers

August 06, 2022

Architects: TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers, Taniguchi and Associates
Area: 180000 m²
Year: 2019
Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Vectorworks, Revit
Professionals: TAISEI DESIGN PLANNERS ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS, P.T. Morimura & Associates, NTT Facilities Incorporated, Taniguchi and Associates, MASUI JUNSUKE Design Studio inc., +3

Yoshio Taniguchi to be Honored with Isamu Noguchi Award

November 26, 2014

Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi and English designer Jasper Morrison have been selected to receive the second annual Isamu Noguchi Award. Presented by The Noguchi Museum, the award recognizes “kindred spirits in innovation, global consciousness, and Japanese/American exchange.”

“We are thrilled to present the second annual Isamu Noguchi Award to Jasper Morrison and Yoshio Taniguchi, whose visionary work and extraordinary contributions in the fields of design and architecture exemplify Noguchi’s lifelong commitment to world citizenship and the practice of art with a social purpose,” stated Jenny Dixon, Director of The Noguchi Museum.

More on Taniguchi's selection, after the break.

AD Classics: The Museum of Modern Art

September 24, 2013

The entrance to the Museum of Modern Art is tucked beneath a demure facade of granite and glass in Midtown Manhattan. Its clean, regular planes mark Yoshio Taniguchi's 2004 addition to the MoMA's sequence of facades, which he preserved as a record of its form. Taniguchi's contribution sits beside the 1984 residential tower by Cesar Pelli and Associates, followed by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone’s original 1939 building, then Philip Johnson’s 1964 addition. Taniguchi was hired in 1997 to expand the Museum’s space and synthesize its disparate elements. His elegant, minimal solution presents a contemporary face for the MoMA while adhering to its Modernist roots.

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