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WITH HARAJUKU, Takenaka Corporation + Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects | International Design Awards Winners

WITH HARAJUKU

CompanyTakenaka Corporation + Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Lead DesignersHiroki Ito

Design TeamMiyajima Teruhisa, Nobuhito Manabe, Toyo Ito, Kei Takeuchi, Nobuaki Takatsuka

Project LocationTokyo, Japan

ClientNTT Urban Development Corporation

CreditsPhoto by Nacasa & Partners, Hiroshi Ueda

Prize(s)Gold in Building Of The Year / Mixed Use

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Entry Description

This facility is a complex of retails, exhibition hall, and housings. The semi-outdoor public "Passage" serves as a bypass for the flow of people concentrated on Takeshita Street, and the open terrace and alley-like spaces develop three-dimensionally like branches and leaves from the trunk of a tree, seamlessly connecting the flow of people.
The hilly topography is instrumental for the creation of Passage, a three-dimensional flow that is circular, seamlessly connecting Meiji Shrine and Harajuku streets, and opens to the stepped greenery terraces surrounded with open facilities.