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Tadao Ando designed the University of Tokyo’s Fukutake Hall at the Hongo Campus, completed in March 2008.
The thin linear site acted as a buffer between the dense city and the college campus. Historic Japanese buildings, European Modern, and International Modern surround the site. Ando ingeniously picks the shared qualities of these elements and abstract them to a very minimal design of concrete. Clerestory windows peek over the outer wall and a horizontal line allows pedestrians on the sidewalk to glimpse in. Restaurant seating and stairs are packed into the courtyard behind, with quick availability to the multi-stories. |
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