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Toyo Ito (伊東 豊雄, Itō Toyō, born 1 June 1941) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city, and has been called "one of the world's ...
The Sendai Mediatheque held its official opening in January 2001. Ito also refers to Mies' Barcelona Pavilion and Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino house as precedents for his work, and indeed, the Mediatheque appears to mix concepts from the two projects, combining le Corbusier’s play with slab and column structure, with Mies “fluid” spatial effects achieved through combined transparency and ...
The Ito-Balmond Serpentine Pavilion is a structure designed by Cecil Balmond and Toyo Ito and originally built for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion programme in London's Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, in 2002 and now part of a restaurant in southern France. [1] It focuses on modern and contemporary art.
The White U House was a building in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan designed by Toyo Ito in 1976. The building was demolished in 1997. [1] Ito designed the building as a house for his older sister following the loss of her husband. [1] The house is one of Ito's most seminal projects. [2]
The estimated area of the structure is 57,685 square meters (620,920 sq ft). It was designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito in collaboration with Cecil Balmond at Arup AGU. It was contracted on 11 November 2009 with construction planned for 45 months. The venue had a partial opening on 23 November 2014. [3] It was officially opened in 2016.
The stadium, designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, makes use of 1 MW of solar cells to provide most of its power needs. [1] The stadium's semi spiral-shaped, like a dragon, is the first stadium in the world to provide power using solar power technology.
The Hachioji Library, situated between Tama Art University's main gate and the center of campus, opened in 2007 after three years of construction. Designed by the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architecture firm Toyo Ito & Associates, [3] the Hachioji campus library has been featured in a variety of professional architecture publications, including DETAIL, Architectural Review, and ...
Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, Imabari; V. VivoCity; W. White U House This page was last edited on 10 October 2020, at 22:35 (UTC). Text is available under the ...