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Toyo Ito - Key Projects Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi-Sendai, Japan 1995-2001 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 "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". Tower of Winds, Yokohama, Japan 1986 Key Current Toyo Ito Project Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, Taiwan 2008- Design competition win Practice Information 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. 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. Architecture News Toyo Ito - Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 2006 Toyo Ito - Other Buildings, chronological: VivoCity - shopping mall, Singapore 2007 Library, Green Avenue, Tokyo, Japan 2007 Crematorium, Kakamigahara, Japan 2007 TOD, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 2004 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 - Yatsushiro Municipal Museum, Japan - Grin Grin, Island city Central Park, Fukouka, Japan - Meiso no Mori funeral hall, Gifu, Japan - More projects online soon Japanese Architects 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 the Building Design Partnership, whose Glasgow office will help Toyo Ito Associates in designing the store. Planning permission expected by the end of 2003. 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 02 Paris Architecture Architecture Studios World Architecture : e-architect - key buildings across the globe Buildings / photos for the Toyo Ito Architecture page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Toyo Ito Buildings - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt Website: www.toyo-ito.co.jp |
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