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Yokohama Ferry Terminal Tokyo, Picture, Building, Architect, Design, Date

Yokohama Ferry Terminal : Architect + Photos

International Port Terminal Tokyo, Japan by Foreign Office Architects



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

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

Yokohama Ferry Terminal architect : Foreign Office Architects






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