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4-12-10 Jingumae
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo
Japan
coordinates:
lat 35.6671982, long 139.7089844
Building names(s):
Omote Sando Hills
Architect/Designer:
Tadao Ando
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getting there: Harakuju Station / Omotesando Station
website: www.omotesandohills.com
Last modified: 1 July, 2009 | Suggested By LT
The circulation path for visitors with sloping walkways remind me of Wright’s 1959
Guggenheim in NY. It seems appropriate in today’s “shopping mall” society.
World-renowned architect Tadao Ando has managed to squeeze a multistory shopping centre and nearly 40 apartments onto this long slither of land on Omotesando. The result is a retail experience as far from regular shopping mall as you can possibly imagine – think gently sloping walkways, tinkling ambient music, the daintiest shops you’ve ever seen and a (well dressed) mob scene every weekend…. The restaurants are generally packed, but you can always have a quick choko of sake on the Hasegawa Sake shop, or a tasty bean cake in Toraya Cafe, one of Japan’s oldest confectioners.