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TOD’S OMOTESANDO | Toyo Ito | Tokyo, Japan | 2004 | Shop+Office |
This is a building for TOD’S, a Italian shoes and leather goods retailer. It is located in Omotesando, Tokyo Japan. Omotesando is known as a showcase of Architecture. The roadside Keyaki trees on Omotesando is another feature of Omotesando. The strucure is corresponding to the thicker members towards the bottom as the trunk and the slimmer members towards the top as the branches of a tree.
A building looks like a tree and with the damascening of gleass is the demand of Toyo Ito. To be able to achieve such design, To make the diagonal pillar concrete srtucture with the glass curtain wall required high level of technology.
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There are many amazing buildings on Omotesando, Toyo Ito came up with the idea of using concrete in this way and coloum free interior is not only to generate large open space but also to distinguish the TOD’S Omotesanto with other large glass curtain wall buildings around. The TOD’s Omotesando has a very sharp apperance and strong impact but with a very soft and columnfree space inside. The building is not transparent, but it is not just a concrete box, this was Toyo Ito’s concept. And we can clearly see his success.
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METROPOL PARASOL | Jurgen Mayer-Hermann | Spain | 2011 |
The Metropol Parasol is the largest wooden structure aound the world, Within a old city with traditions, this unique huge wooden structure is built. The architect won the competition of the renewal of the plaza. When looking from above, the beauty of the organic shape is expressed. When walking under the structure, even though it is huge, but would not fell pressure, as it is harmonise with the nature. I think it is a architecture which shows the merits and beauty f wooden strucutres.
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SANTA MARIA CHURCH | Alvaro Siza | Portugal | 1997 | The church is located in a small town called Marco de Canaveses. Every year, thoundsands of people coming to this small town just to visit this church. This pure white church has become the symbol of the town. Inside, there are many colours been used, such as the cream tiles, dark wooden flooring, white marble but they all work out a harmony, and makes the white of this church even ‘whiter’.
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