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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.
Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao, born 13 September 1941) is a Japanese autodidact architect [1] [2] whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism".
21_21 Design Sight is a museum in Roppongi in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, which opened in 2007. The museum, a design museum, was created by architect Tadao Ando and fashion designer Issey Miyake. "The idea was to create not only a museum that shows exhibits," says Ando, "but also a place for researching the potentiality of design as an element that ...
Omotesandō is known as one of the foremost 'architectural showcase' streets in the world, featuring a multitude of fashion flagship stores within a short distance of each other. These include the Louis Vuitton store (Jun Aoki, 2002), Tod's (Toyo Ito, 2004), Dior (SANAA, 2004), Omotesandō Hills (Tadao Ando, 2005) and Gyre (MVRDV, 2007 ...
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."
[3] [4] It has been placed on the register of Tokyo's Select Historic Buildings by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, in accordance with the 2006 Tokyo Landscape Regulations. [5] The new "Arch Building", to designs by Tadao Ando and Nikken Sekkei, dates from 2015. [3] [4]
In 2021, when the “Heartless” rapper bought the 4,000-square-foot oceanfront home at 24844 Malibu Road, it bore all the hallmarks of Ando’s style, like modernist lines and plenty of ...
Also designed by Tadao Ando, Genius Loci is composed of concrete, water, and stone, and has indigenous plant species planted within the meditation garden and outside the walls of the building. [5] Genius Loci houses a meditation garden, meditation hall, and the resort’s media arts gallery, [6] and is home to the Yumin Art Nouveau collection. [7]