Prada Aoyama Shop and Offices, Tokyo, Japan

Related people

Robert Livesey (was created by)
Pierre de Meuron (was created by)
Jacques Herzog (was created by)
Herzog and de Meuron (architect)

Date

Planning: 1999-2000; Construction: 2000-2003

Description

The building's outside geometry resembles the asymmetry of a natural crystal, yet the steel skeleton and 840 shiny diamond-shaped windows suggest a highly polished sleekness. The glass walls are not the usual transparent curtain-walling but a transparent, structural shell. Keywords: Japan, Tokyo, Minami Aoyama, shop, glass wall, commercial building, office, diagonal grid, module, crystal, diamond.

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