Kisho Kurokawa, Architect, Design Studio Japan, Tower, Tokyo, Buildings, Design, Projects

Kisho Kurokawa : Architecture Information + Images

Japanese Architecture : Metabolism - ArBITAT architects

Kisho Kurokawa - Key Projects Kisho Kurokawa - Major Building Nakagin Capsule Tower Pod-like tower building with relationship to Moshe Safdie's Habitat Expo housing but more vertical and regular. Each pod has a circular window which makes the building look like a stack of washing machines - Le Corbusier's Machine Houses realised! Kisho Kurokawa : Van Gogh Museum Exhibition Wing, Amsterdam, Netherlands photo © adrian welch Kisho Kurokawa - Recent Building Design Maggie's Wales, UK - design by late Dr Kisho Kurokawa, ArBITAT architects image © Maggie's Centres Kisho Kurokawa - Key Buildings Designs, alphabetical: Astana - Masterplan, Kazakhstan 1998-2004 Kisho Kurokawa: design competition win Fukui City Museum of Art, Fukui, Japan 1993-96 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima 1988-89 Kibi-cho City Hall / Kibi Dome, Wakayama, Japan 1993-95 Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1992-98 Louvain-La-Neuve Museum, Belgium 1990-92 Melbourne Central, Melbourne, Australia 1986-91 The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan 1990-94 Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan 1983-87 Nakagin Capsule Tower, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 1970-72 Nara City Museum of Photography, Nara, Japan 1989-91 National Gallery in Tokyo, Roppongi, Tokyo 2000-05 National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan 1973-77 Osaka International Convention Centre, Osaka 1994-2000 Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan 1978-82 Singapore Flyer – observation wheel, Marina Bay, Singapore 2005-08 Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates with DP Architects Sony Tower, Osaka, Japan 1972-76 The Sporting Club at Illinois Center, Chicago, USA 1987-90 Toyota City Stadium, Toyota City, Japan 1997-2001 Van Gogh Museum - New Wing, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1990-98 Zenit Stadium, St.Petersburg, Russia 2006-09 More design projects by Kisho Kurokawa online soon

Kisho Kurokawa - Practice Information

1934-2007
Born in Nagoya, Aichi

Japanese architect
One of Metabolist Movement founders in 1960

Office of Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates estb. 1962, Tokyo

Kisho Kurokawa was taught by famous Japanese architect Kenzo Tange

Kisho Kurokawa - Education
Degree: Kyoto University Department of Architecture 1957
Masters: Tokyo University School of Architecture 1959
Doctorate: Tokyo University School of Architecture 1964

Nagakin Capsule Tower, off Shuto Orbital, Shinbashi, Tokyo
1972
13 storeys – 140 prefabricated capsules apartments
Kisho Kurokawa owned Pod No. 1301

Kisho Kurokawa buildings - designs listed chronologically

Wakayama Museum of Modern Art, Japan

Japanese Buildings

photo: Yoshiharu Matsumura

Architecture Studios

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