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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
Van Gogh Museum
photo © adrian welch

Kisho Kurokawa - Recent Building Design

Maggie's Wales, UK - design by late Dr Kisho Kurokawa, ArBITAT architects
Maggies Wales Building
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

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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
Black House
photo: Yoshiharu Matsumura

Architecture Studios



 
 
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