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18 Mar 2013

Pritzker Prize Winner 2013
The 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner is Toyo Ito of Japan
Toyo Ito, a 71 year old architect whose architectural practice is based in Tokyo, Japan, will be the recipient of the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced today by Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the prize. Ito is the sixth Japanese architect to become a Pritzker Laureate -- the first five being the late Kenzo Tange in 1987, Fumihiko Maki in 1993, Tadao Ando in 1995, and the team of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa in 2010.

Toyo Ito : Pritzker Prize Winner 2013


Toyo Ito Architect : more information about the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner
Dome in Odate
photo : Mikio Kamaya



Toyo Ito Architecture Musem, Omishima, Japan
Toyo Ito & Associates
13 Dec 2011 - Building located in Imabari, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. It is the first museum in Japan dedicated to the work of an individual architect. The museum is situated on a site overlooking the Seto Inland Sea, on an island south of Tokyo.

Recent Major Toyo Ito Building

Porta Fira Hotel, Barcelona, Spain
Toyo Ito & Associates / b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos
Porta Fira Hotel
photo from FCC

Porta Fira Hotel
Gold Emporis Skyscraper Award 2010 - announced 8 Aug 2011
The building was chosen from over 300 skyscrapers around the world. The Emporis Award for the Best New Skyscraper, is the world's most renowned prize for high-rise architecture. The jury is made up of architecture experts from 67 countries.

Latest Toyo Ito Buildings added

TOD's, Tokyo, Japan
TOD'S Omotesando Building
photograph © Robert Day

Mikimoto Building, Tokyo, Japan
Mikimoto Building Mikimoto Building Tokyo
photographs © Robert Day
Toyo Ito - Tokyo Buildings : Japanese Architecture Tour - added 2 Jun 2011

Toyo Ito Award

Toyo Ito wins Praemium Imperiale

The architect was awarded the Japanese Art Association's Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate for 2010.
Toyo Ito : Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate for 2010.

Serpentine Pavilion 2002 : Toyo Ito with Arup
Serpentine Pavilion 2002 Toyo Ito
photograph © 2007 Stephen White
Serpentine Pavilion

Toyo Ito show at Venice Biennale 2010
Venice Biennale Toyo Ito
photograph © Adrian Welch
Venice Biennale Arsenale Pavilion

Key Projects by Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito & Associates - Key Designs

Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi-Sendai, Japan
1995-2001
Sendai Mediatheque Japan
photo : Nacasa & Partners Inc.
Sendai Mediatheque
Architecture Competition
Multi-purpose cultural centre made with steel tubular lattice structures. The building appears light by day, and also at night when the structure glows artifically from within. The Sendai Mediatheque contains a library, art gallery, audio-visual library, film studio, and cafe.
Michael Webb in AR 1256 states that Toyo Ito "thought of the enclosed space as liquid, likened the columns to strands of seaweed drifting through an aquarium....a concept that was as audacious as the Pompidou Centre".

Serpentine Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, west London, UK
2002
Toyo Ito with Arup
Serpentine Pavilion 2002
photograph © 2007 Stephen White

Serpentine Pavilion Toyo Ito
photograph © 2007 Deborah Bullen
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Tower of Winds, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan
1986
Tower of Winds Japan
photo : Tomio Ohashi
Tower of Winds

Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture
Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture
photo : Daici Ano
Museum of Architecture, Imabari-shi, Ehime, Japan

Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, Taiwan
2008-
Taichung Metropolitan Opera House
image : kuramochi+oguma
Metropolitan Opera House
Design competition win

Toyo Ito Buildings

Designs by Toyo Ito architect, chronological:

VivoCity - shopping mall, Singapore
2007

Library, Green Avenue, Tokyo, Japan
2007

Crematorium, Kakamigahara, Japan
2007

Mikimoto Building, Tokyo, Japan
2005
see link at top of page

TOD, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2004
TOD'S Omotesando Building by Toyo Ito - see link at top of page

House in Sakurajosui, Japan
1997-2000

Ota-ku Resort Complex, Chisagata-gun, Japan
1995-98

Hall in Odate, Odate Jukai Dome Park - Odate Sports Dome, Japan
1997

Oita Agricultural Park, Hayami-gun, Japan
1997

Library, Paris
1992

Silver Hut house, Tokyo, Japan
1984

House, Kasama, Japan
1980-81

White U house, Japan
1976

PMT Building, Nagoya, Japan
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Yatsushiro Municipal Museum, Japan
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Grin Grin, Island city Central Park, Fukouka, Japan
-

Meiso no Mori – funeral hall, Gifu, Japan
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More projects online soon

Toyo Ito UK Project

Toyo Ito plans for Glasgow Selfridges store: revised following Selfridges' Jul 2003 takeover.
Toyo Ito Architects have not been able to release proposals despite requests

Toyo Ito is one of the world's most revered architects and along with Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, would clearly bring yet more attention to Glasgow Architecture (ref. Future Systems Selfridges Store in Birmingham). Selfridges Scotland would be the group's fifth UK store.

News excerpt from Mar 2003 re Toyo Ito Associates - Selfridges Proposal:

Toyo Ito: Selfridges Store
Toyo Ito & Associates to design Selfridges
Department store Selfridges is close to appointing signature architect Toyo Ito to design its £90m Glasgow store. Selfridges has already appointed local architects the Building Design Partnership, whose Glasgow architect office will help Toyo Ito Associates in designing the store.

Toyo Ito Architecture - UK
The only Toyo Ito building created in the UK was the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion: annual temporary exhibition, built next to the Serpentine Gallery, London - Toyo Ito & Associates Architects & Cecil Balmond with Arup, Jul-Sep 2002. A truly radical design, like a Wyndham Lewis painting with its angular asymmetric patterns of solid and void.

Toyo Ito Architecture: Glasgow Selfridges
Selfridges Glasgow bosses confirmed it was desperately looking for a site in the city centre. Sep 2002

More projects by Toyo Ito & Associates online soon



 

Toyo Ito Tokyo - Practice Information

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects are based in Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Toyo Ito : Japanese Architect

Toyo Ito Arquitectos Asociados En España Sl are located at L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Toyo Ito is one of the world's most innovative and influential architects

Toyo Ito, Architect - Background

Born in Japan in 1941, Toyo Ito graduated from Tokyo University,
Department of Architecture in 1965.

Toyo Ito started his own architecture studio, 'urban robot' (urbot) in Tokyo, 1971; it became Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects in 1979.

Toyo Ito has served as guest professor at Columbia University and is an honorary professor at the University of North London. Toyo Ito is one of the world's most innovative and influential architects.

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Toyo Ito architect - Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 2006



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