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Winner of the 2001 Pritzker Prize, Herzog de Meuron’s Prada Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan is a strong contender against Rem Koolhaas’ Prada Epicenter in Beverly Hill, California.Herzog de Meuron threw out typical ideas of a store and followed a strict logical process from the beginning, down to articulated little details. What are walls? What is an object? What is private commercial?
Completed in 2003, this building reinvents commercial structure by integrating retail and culture. The tightly-fit urban condition because a panorama behind the store’s products. The highly visible polyhedral, 6 story corner-building accommodates with a small plaza for relief from the saturated experience. As one approaches, the structure is utilizes so that floor heights are not evident and it all appears as one crystal shape. The diamond-shape grid facades have etched glass for changing rooms, convex glass that approaches the street, and concave glass that draws the street inside. |
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