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Sou Fujimoto

Torch Tower . Tokyo

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Sou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto is designing the top part of the tallest skyscraper in Japan “Torch Tower” in Tokyo,
390m tall, a large semi-outdoor Hill-like-Plaza in the middle of the building around the height of 300m, as “a Place for People” instead of “an object”, collaborating with Mitsubishi Estate Company CO.,LTD. and Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei, Inc. among others. Continue reading Sou Fujimoto

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Sou Fujimoto

Shiroiya hotel . Maebashi

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Sou Fujimoto Architects . photos: © Shinya Kigure . © Katsumasa Tanaka

The project was to rejuvenate a defunct building in the centre of Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture. Formerly belonging to a long-established inn, the work was intended to assist in regeneration of the whole city centre. Our brief was to renovate the four-storey reinforced concrete main building into which the inn had moved some 40 years ago. This would be called the Heritage Tower. The second task was to construct of a new building, to be called the Green Tower. Continue reading Sou Fujimoto