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Prada Tokyo

Herzog & de Meuron (Swiss architectural firm, founded 1978)
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/135133
Date
2003
Description
Building base, detail; Prada's Tokyo “epicenter”, in the fashionable Aoyama district, is the company's second radical approach to fashion-store architecture, following Rem Koolhaas’ flagship store in New York. The Tokyo store is a strikingly unconventional 6-story glass crystal that is soft despite its sharp angles – as a result of its five-sided shape, the smooth curves throughout its interior, and its signature diamond-shaped glass panes, which vary between flat, concave and convex “bubbles”. Jacques Herzog describes these glass panes as “an interactive optical device." Source: Galinsky [website]; http://www.galinsky.com/ (accessed 5/4/2011)
Type of Work
department store
Subject
Twenty-first century
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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