May 10, 2006
From Crisscross:
I haven’t seen this yet, but looks quite nice.
Update
I just remembered that I blogged this about a year ago.
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Looks like a feng shui nightmare.
Wow, amazing. This is what I love about Tokyo. Right between two drab office buildings BAM amazing architecture. Will definitely have to check this out next time I’m in town.
Wow. That is one hell of a building.
i watched the construction of this from my office window – really attractive at sunset.. wonder who is moving in, and why they havent done so yet?
also looks like a massive gear system is employed on the second floor (very visible from the sidewalk), but with no context, hard to see what it will do.
the immediate neighborhood (noisy, dirty meiji street) is cheap ‘n cheezy – hopefully that will change as development efforts such as this are completed..
i passed by that building a week or so ago. there were absolutely no signs or notes to tell what that building was! soo i was way curious. and i KNEW you’d blog this!! :D
Actually, I just remembered blogging this about a year ago.
where is this building? i’m in japan for a month right now, and i’ll be returning to tokyo in a week or two, so i was hoping to stop by and take a look…
It’s on Meiji Dori, not far from the Omotesando crossing if you’re heading towards Shibuya, on the Gap side of the street (meaning left side if you’re walking towards Shibuya).
a little bit of the mystery can be cleared up by Googling the architect’s name. He has a firm called CDI Aoyama Studio, and has done at least one other building for Veloqx, the developer here.
http://www.cdias.co.jp/designs/index_02.html
the program description sounds unsurprising: “retail outlets, restaurants, and fitness centre.”
Yeah, somebody had pointed that out in a later post I wrote about the building.
hello, yes really amazing and futuristic building.
You’ll find some photos on JPDN.NET :
http://www.jpdn.net/www_jpdn.net/nuc/index.php?itemid=167
Additional photos are available on demand.