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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Tokyo, Kanto, Japanen_US
dc.coverage.temporal2004-2007 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorSkidmore, Owings & Merrillen_US
dc.date2004-2007en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-19T15:39:48Z
dc.date.available2014-12-19T15:39:48Z
dc.date.issued2004-2007en_US
dc.identifier252614en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3050en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/168224
dc.descriptionElevated portico spanning plaza connecting east and west towers to center axis of galleria and street; The project site takes up 78,000 square meters (19.4 acres) previously occupied by the Japan Defense Agency in Roppongi area of Minato. The $3 billion project includes office, residential, commercial, hotel (a Ritz-Carlton), and leisure space, as well as the tallest building (248 m) in Tokyo and the new quarters of the Suntory Museum of Art. The 5-floor retail Galleria is 73,000 square meters (786,000 sq ft). Landscape architecture of the surrounding new 40,000 m2 (10 acre) public park was designed by EDAW, the Suntory Museum of Art designed by Kengo Kuma, and the design of the retail Galleria handled by the Colorado-based CommArts. The design museum 21_21 Design Sight by Tadao Ando is also in the park. The tall central tower is surrounded by adjacent lower buildings form “foothills” in a design inspired by traditional gardens in Zen temples. Multiple overlapping planes in the buildings’ elevations recall Japanese Shoji screens. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/30/2014)en_US
dc.format.mediumsteel; glass; reinforced concreteen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectArt museumsen_US
dc.subjectTwenty-first centuryen_US
dc.titleTokyo Midtownen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-SOS-TM-C03en_US
vra.culturalContextJapaneseen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypemixed-use developmenten_US
vra.worktypeskyscraperen_US
vra.worktypeart museumen_US
dc.contributor.displaySkidmore, Owings & Merrill (American architectural firm, founded 1939)en_US


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