A thousand-meter-long street in Tokyo, 20 high-end buildings, designers are dazzled

A thousand-meter-long street in Japan is a "holy place" for designers to see architecture. You can browse the works of many famous architects just by walking around. Let's take a look at the architectural tourism of this street. Strategy ~

How many works of famous architects can be squeezed into a thousand-meter-long street?

The answer is: 20.

Go to Tokyo to see the architecture and don’t know where to start? Let’s start from the street below.

This is the most famous street in Asia that combines fashion, food and architecture. It is about 1 km in length. The world's top fashion brands are lined up on both sides of the street. You can buy it every 2 minutes while walking on the street. See the work of a star architect. When you go to Tokyo to see architecture, it is the place you are least likely to miss and should not miss - Omotesando.

Omotesando is located in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan. Both sides of the street are lined with architectural works designed by top European and Japanese architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito, and SANAA for top fashion brands such as Prada, Tod’s, and Dior. It can be called the most gorgeous collision of architecture and fashion.

Omotesando architectural roaming map (drawn by the editor)

Tokyu Plaza has a special shape. In order to retain green space in the center of the tight land, trees were planted on the roof, making it a beautiful place on Omotesando. new landmark. This building is most famous for its kaleidoscope-like entrance. Going up the escalator makes you feel dizzy.

The building *** has seven floors, and the area of ??each floor is 60% of the floor area. By twisting the floors one by one, a peripheral stepped platform is formed, with rest seats and small plants added on top. Structurally, there are support columns running through the upper and lower floors of the building.

SANAA’s style is distinctive, light, transparent, simple and white. All these features are fully in line with Dior’s brand style and are vividly reflected in this building.

RAGTAG, Japan’s famous second-hand clothing chain brand, has a typical Sejima Kazuyo style building - simple glass walls.

Because the building life is limited to 10 years, the structural units of the building are pre-completed in the factory and assembled on site, which is easy to construct and can be simply disassembled.

Unlike other buildings along the street, the building is deliberately set back to form an irregular building facade. There is a semi-outdoor space for resting on the steps. The building is more public, with 8 floors. The tall conical entrance design is the same as the National Museum of Art in Roppongi, and is Kurokawa Kisho's personal signature.

Omotesando Hills is located in Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan. It is a complex facility composed of commercial facilities, residences and parking lots. The former site is the "Tongrunkai Aoyama Apartment", a Japanese collective housing with a history of more than 80 years. Since it is a sloping area, high-rise buildings cannot be built, making it a difficult building hinterland to deal with. Architect Tadao Ando transformed it from an old residence into a landmark building in Omotesando through exquisite design.

Louis Vuitton’s Omotesando Hills store is composed of layers of LV suitcases. The appearance presents a layered feel of a square facade, with a simple and simple return to simplicity.

TOD's building completely abstractly reproduces the shape of the zelkova tree in Omotesando. The complex intertwined branch walls are made of concrete poured on site, leaving more than 200 gaps between the walls, which are made of more than 200 blocks. Glasses of different shapes are embedded in it, and the combination of concrete walls and glass is close to a plane treatment without interfaces.

The entire building adopts a very modern reinforced concrete structure, and the color of the exterior wall imitates tree trunks, presenting a distant and rustic aesthetic.

The glass exterior with an area of ??500 square meters and a height of 9.5 meters makes people inside feel integrated into the beech wood group. It also becomes a mutual scenery with the surrounding buildings and pedestrians on the road.

Making the building harmonious with the surrounding plants was one of the goals in the design of this project, so the facade of the building is made of 45cm wide pine lamella mullions as the main structure. The vertical structure of the facade is consistent with the tree trunk to achieve a visual echo.

The building features a seemingly floating spiral ramp (15 meters in diameter) that surrounds and climbs to the second-floor gallery space. The aluminum and glass on the facade reflect the surrounding chaotic streetscape.

The building pulls back the monotonous structural columns of the office building's exterior to form a sloping glass facade that separates the street from the interior of the store.

840 pieces of glass make up the six-story building. The diamond-shaped glass sash windows make the facade as bright as a diamond. The exterior wall will produce different tones due to changes in light, making it dazzling.

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The building is divided into two buildings with their own characteristics. One is surrounded by a full glass curtain wall, and the other has a facade made of vertical lines of stone and glass. The curtain walls are composed of rhythmic sloping angles, leaving a walking path between the two buildings that can pass through the buildings.

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One of Yamashita Kazumasa’s representative works, it has distinctive architectural features such as red brick walls, concave and convex terraces, and sky corridors. The open courtyard space inside allows people to walk in it and see the blue sky above their heads, turning it into a complex integrating business, office and residence.

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Completed in 1989, LA COLLEZIONE in Minami Aoyama is a well-known masterpiece of Tadao Ando in the Omotesando area. The basic structure consists of a combination of three cubes and a 21-meter-high cylinder. The subtle gap space between the combinations is used to create cloisters, spiral staircases, and stepped squares, making people feel like walking in a maze.

The Nezu Museum of Art has an open and quiet space. The Japanese garden in the museum is full of greenery, allowing people to feel the pleasure of appreciation in the vast space.

Taro Okamoto is widely known for his avant-garde sculptures and paintings that were part of Japan's most famous modern art movement. After his death in 1996, his home and studio were opened to the public as a small art gallery. The studio built by the famous Japanese architect Junzo Sakakura is also worth a visit in its own right. The concrete walls and eye-shaped roof are also regarded as one of the outstanding works of modern architecture. There is also a sculpture garden in the memorial hall, with sculptures of Taro Okamoto dotted among tropical plants.