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Ibaraki City Cultural and Child-rearing Support Complex ONIKURU / Takenaka Corporation + Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Text description provided by BUNGA NET – The Ibaraki City Cultural and Child-rearing Support Complex ONIKURU is a public complex with multiple functions, including a theatre, library, childcare support, civic center, and planetarium. The site is right in front of Ibaraki City Hall. The majority of the exterior is unfinished 'as-struck' concrete, with an emphasis on slabs and pillars, giving an impression of the 'Dom-Ino' system. The facade does not make a strong statement, and if you came here without knowing anything about it, you might think it was a branch building of the city hall.

Gaia - Nanyang Technological University Singapore / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects + RSP Architects Planners & Engineers

Hana Abdel — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Gaia – Asia's most expansive wooden edifice - Named after the Greek Earth Goddess, Gaia represents a bold marriage between Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, and RSP, showcasing excellence in the design of education environments and sustainable architectural expertise. The six-story construction serves as a hub for learning, research, and innovation – a place where NTU students, faculty, and staff connect and collaborate.

Soma City HOME-FOR-ALL / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects + Klein Dytham architecture

Fernanda Castro — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:00:00 +0000

Klein Dytham architecture's Home-for-All project in Soma City, Japan was handed over to the local community on the 14th February 2015 with much love.

AD Classics: Odate Dome / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Ramzi Naja — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Odate Jukai 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.

AD Classics: Yatsushiro Municipal Museum / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Rory Stott — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

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 & Associates, Architects

Rory Stott — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

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.

AD Classics: Silver Hut / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Lisa Wronski — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Known for his conceptual designs, Japanese architect Toyo Ito is arguably one of the world's most innovative architects. He began his architectural career with a project for his sister in 1976 called "The U House," located in the center of Tokyo. The U House contained windows on the inside facing a courtyard instead of the typical outward-facing windows. This was Ito's first experimentation with the ways that light enters buildings, and he expanded this idea to an even greater extent in his next project: the Silver Hut in Nakano, Tokyo.

AD Classics: AD Classics: Tower of Winds / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Ramzi Naja — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

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.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 / Cecil Balmond + Arup + Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Sebastian Jordana — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Toyo Ito, recipient of the Pritzker Prize 2013, along with Cecil Balmond and Arup were in charge of the design of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion back in 2002. What appeared to be an extremely complex random pattern was in fact derived from an algorithm of a cube that expanded as it rotated. The intersecting lines formed different triangles and trapezoids, whose transparency and translucency gave a sense of infinitely repeated motion.

AD Classics: Sendai Mediatheque / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Megan Sveiven — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:00:00 +0000

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 its engineering and aesthetic.

Porta Fira Towers / b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos + Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Nico Saieh — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:00:00 +0000

The key priorities behind this architectural project by Toyo Ito and b720 Arquitectos, headed by Fermín Vázquez, are to respond to the immediate environment and serve as a gateway to the cities of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Barcelona from El Prat International Airport.