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S h i b u i Beauty enriched by the passing of time

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K e n g o K u m a

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C o l l e z I o n e

T a d a o A n d o

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C o l l e z I o n e

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6-1-3 Minami-Aoyama

Minato-ku

(on film)

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A s a k u s a C u l t u r e and T o u r i s m C e n t e r

K e n g o K u m a & A s s o c I a t e s

;Their perseverance to align the material and the immaterial. They obtain an elegance, seamless to their built environment.

My presence was always obvious.

(on film)

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N e z u M u s e u m

K e n g o K u m a & Associates

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T e s h i m a Art Gallery Pavilion

“ a r t m u s t e x I s t a m I d n a t u r e ” Soichiro-Fukutake

Sanaa Ryue Nishizawa

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178 P r a d a A o y a m a

HERZOG & DE MEURON

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Y o k o h a m a International Passenger Terminal

Foreign Office Architects ( F O A )

Yokohama International Passenger Terminal / Foreign Office Architects (FOA)

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“Every building has its own unique set of conditions and problems that is must address. A work of architecture can therefore only be a unique solution that can exist in no place other than where it is built.” Tadao Ando

Yokohama International Passenger Terminal

Architects ; Foreign Office Architects (FOA)

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Materiality is more then just the articulation of space but a tool used by the architect to reveal an image.

The seduction of image

A reflection of the trees that line the street perhaps? A place of opportunity and experimentation. Do we, as architects take opportunities to build too bare the personal desires that we’ve been holding within. A play with structure, irrelevant to the program however a contribution to the city. An opportunity to explore an idea thats been withheld. As it challenges the material realm it remains a space of function. Elevated off the street, im transported from one space to another. Vessels of Architecture.

Sendai demonstrates the other visual and aesthetic dimension that material can attain. Materiality can be understood as the excess applied to material elevating it to a level of cultural understanding. ~ It is more then just an articulation of space but a tool to reveal an image. Japan. To transcend ‘boundaries’ and to nurture ‘places’

“ The tool is the direct and immediate expression of progress; it gives man essential assistance and essential freedom.”

H a s u ; The very first of something

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