Sendai Mediatheque
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2-1, Kasuga-machi
Aoba-ku
Sendai
980-0821
Japan
coordinates:
38.2654991 140.8654785
Building names(s): Sendai Mediatheque
Architect/Designer:
Toyo Ito
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Completion date: 2001
Function:
website: www.smt.city.sendai.jpGetting there:
by subway: get off at kotodai station after 3-minute ride from sendai station on the subway bound for izumi-chuo. 5-minute walk from the exit ‘koen 2.’
by bus: approximately 10-minute ride from JR sendai station on a bus bound for ‘kotsukyoku daigaku byoin via jozenji-dori.’ get off at sendai mediatheque stop.
on foot: approximately 20-minute walk from sendai station
by taxi: approximately 7-minute ride from the west exit taxi stand outside sendai station
by car: approximately 10-minute ride from sendai miyagi IC on the tohoku expressway
office hours: 9:00 – 21:00
sendai shimin library: 10:00 – 20:00.
on saturdays, sundays and national holidays, the closing time is 18:00.
days when smt is closed:
sendai mediatheque is closed between december 29 and january 3, and once a month for maintenance.
the days when the sendai shimin library is closed are mondays (except for national holidays), the day following a holiday, day for readjustment of books, year-end and new year holidays (dec. 28 to jan. 4), and a special period for rearrangement of books.
Last update: 3 June, 2009 | Suggested By LT
Along this main facade the six 15.75-inch-thin floor slabs seem to be floating within the space connected only by the 13 vertical tube steel lattice columns that rise up from ground floor to roof, similar to the trunks of trees of a forest.
The tubes are both structure and vector for light and all of the utilities, networks and systems that allow for technological communication and vertical mobility, including elevators and stairs. Each vertical shaft varies in diameter and is independent of the facade, allowing for a free form plan which varies from floor to floor.
The interior of each level of the mediatheque is designed by a different designer. On the ground floor Kazuyo Sejima places the administrative offices behind a translucent screen. The second and third levels house the Shimin Library and include a browsing lounge with internet access with furniture designed by K.T Architecture. The fourth and fifth levels contain gallery space; one level an exhibition space with moveable walls and the other an exhibition space with mainly fixed walls with rest area seating by Karim Rashid. The sixth level houses the multimedia library dedicated to audio-visual with green and white furniture designed by Ross Lovegrove and a 180 seat cinema.