Yokohama Ferry Terminal : Architect + Photos

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 Yokohama Ferry Terminal architect : Foreign Office Architects