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Yokohama International Port Terminal, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Foreign Office Architects

Yokohama Ferry Terminal photograph from Foreign Office
Architects via RIAS in 2004
1995 - architecture competition winners
FOA moved temporarily to Yokohama in 1999
Yokohama Ferry Terminal was only completed in 2002

Yokohama Ferry Terminal photo from Foreign Office Architects
via RIAS in 2004: Saturo Mashima
Review of Lecture by FOA:
Yokohama. This is the kind of project many of us dream of. After the description
of the initial 32 sections becoming 124, and the ability to keep control
of such a large irregular geometry building, I felt drained and guess
that many of the audience were between bafflement and amazement. Farshid
wanted users to get close to the heavy structure: ‘at times it is more
baroque like’ and in the terminal, more classical. She asked ‘how far
you can take a package to make a system’. I enjoyed her simple pursuit
of simplicity, the rough wood outside, the smooth inside, also the inventiveness
of it all, ‘the floor became a kind of bench…bodily contact with the buildings
is… very effective’. Some of the ideas and geometries seemed a little
contrived, and expensive, but the radical newness forces us to evaluate
the potential of building anew.

Yokohama Ferry Terminal image from Foreign Office Architects
via RIAS in 2004
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