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Binfengtang Pottery School in Yixing / Norihiko Dan and Associates

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 19 May 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Yixing, a city in Jiangsu Provence, is in the Jiangnan region on the south bank of the Yangtze River, approximately 150 km west of Shanghai. It is known historically as a thriving area that produces pottery of traditional tea bowls and utensils. The family of the client (owner of the building), Mr. Gao, has been involved in pottery for generations in the area, and after he studied pottery in Japan, he opened a pottery studio in Beijing and then returned to his hometown, Yixing, where he established a ceramics studio and pottery school.

Regeneration of Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 1 / Norihiko Dan and Associates

Karen Valenzuela — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 02:00:00 +0000

Constructed in 1979 by the highly respected Taiwanese structural engineer T. Y. Lin and influenced by Eero Saarinen’s Washington Dulles International Airport, Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 1 featured a prestressed structure that was state of the art at the time. However, after thirty years of use, Terminal 1 was operating over capacity and had become outdated well before its time.

Sun Moon Lake Administration Office of Tourism Bureau / Norihiko Dan and Associates

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 19:00:00 +0000

Known as one of the main tourist spots in Taiwan, Sun Moon Lake in the Hsiangshan lake district has a certain calmness that is particularly East Asian. In 2003, Norihiko Dan won the international competition for the Tourism Bureau’s Sun Moon Lake Administration office as a part of the “Landform Series.”

Omotesando Keyaki Building / Norihiko Dan and Associates

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 01:00:00 +0000

This eight-story commercial building—located on a corner lot at right angles to an alleyway and Omotesando Avenue—is actually surrounded by Tod’s L-shaped Omotesando Building by Toyo Ito. The façade of the former old building faced Omotesando exclusively, so the side façade, facing the alleyway, was exposed awkwardly like the backside of a building. Thus, this project tries to change this relationship to the Tod’s building by creating a diagonal orientation with an irregularly shaped circle. This is to maximize the corner lot feature of the premises, and to accentuate the inner vertical façade of the adjacent Tod’s building, in order to create a certain “symbiotic” synergy. The building’s structure is composed of multiple leaf-shaped columns made from steel reinforced concrete and arranged on the outer shell. The wood-like texture on these columns was developed by pouring concrete into a wooden mold.

Hsiangshan Visitor Center / Norihiko Dan and Associates

Nico Saieh — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Enta Yang shared with us the photographs he took of the Hsiangshan Visitor Center by Japan architect Norihiko Dan in Taiwan, winner project from the Sun Moon Lake Tourist Route International competition, featuring a really nice concrete work and a green roof cover to keep under control internal temperatures.