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Omotesando Hills (表参道ヒルズ, Omotesandō hiruzu) is a shopping complex in central Tokyo built in 2005 in a series of urban developments by Mori Building. It occupies a 250-meter stretch of Omotesandō, a shopping and (previously) residential road in Aoyama. It was designed by Tadao Ando, and contains over 130 shops and 38 apartments.
Yaesu Chikagai or Yaesu Shopping Mall is a large underground shopping mall located in Yaesu, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. Yaesu Chikagai lies underneath Yaesu Avenue and Sotobori Dori. It is immediately adjacent to the Yaesu side of Tokyo Station , with direct connections into the basement level of the station.
Ginza Six was built on the location of the former Matsuzakaya department store, which was Ginza's first ever department store. [2] The complex was inaugurated on 17 April, 2017, in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike, Chairman of LVMH Bernard Arnault, and President of J. Front Retailing Ryoichi Yamamoto, among others.
The name of the building, 109, is a form of word play (goroawase, specifically numerical substitution) and is taken from the Japanese characters tō (meaning 10) and kyū (9) as in Tōkyū. The numbers 10 and 9 also signified the operating hours, which was 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Also in 1995, a graduate course was established in cooperation with Tokyo University of the Arts(東京芸術大学, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku). In 2001, Independent Administrative Institution National Research Institute for Cultural Properties was created by the merger of the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo , and the ...
Arata Isozaki: Isozaki was born on July 23, 1931, in Kyushu, Japan. He studied architecture at the University of Tokyo. In 1963 he opened up his own studio and was the leading architect during the postwar period in Japan. Isozaki's first building he worked on was the Ōita Prefectural Library (1966). [6] Kenzo Tange: Tange was born on September ...
Laforet Harajuku (ラフォーレ原宿, Rafōre Harajuku) is a department store, residence, and museum complex [1] located in the Harajuku commercial and entertainment district of the Shibuya neighborhood, in Tokyo, Japan. Constructed over part of the old Tokyo Central Church, a newer church located behind the store, [2] Laforet was opened in ...
Spiral, also known as the Wacoal Art Center, is a multi-use building in Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan, that was designed by architect Fumihiko Maki. It was commissioned by lingerie company Wacoal and completed in 1985. Spiral includes exhibition spaces, a multipurpose hall, cafes, restaurants and bars, beauty salons, and select shops.