Category: 80s

1983 – GA Gallery – Makato Suzuki (AMS Architects)

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1983 – GA Gallery – Makato Suzuki und AMS Architects
1983 – GA Gallery – Makato Suzuki und AMS Architects
1983 – GA Gallery – Makato Suzuki und AMS Architects
1983 – GA Gallery – Makato Suzuki und AMS Architects

This exposed concrete building, which accommodates a gallery and bookstore dedicated to architecture and the offices of the publisher of GA, is on a narrow side  street, halfway between Yoyogi and Omotesando station. The interior of the building offers a spatial variety, while the surface of the walls, floor and ceiling is either in exposed concrete, steel or glass constructed, which creats an atmosphere of roughness.

Name: GA Gallery │Type: Gallery and Office│Architect: Makato Suzuki (AMS Architects)│Completed: 1983

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1982 – Tokyo Union Church – Heng Kitayama (Nishimatsu Construction)

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1982 – Tokyo Union Church – Heng Kitayama for Nishimatsu Construction
1982 – Tokyo Union Church – Heng Kitayama for Nishimatsu Construction
1982 – Tokyo Union Church – Heng Kitayama for Nishimatsu Construction
1982 – Tokyo Union Church – Heng Kitayama for Nishimatsu Construction

Tokyo Union Church is located right at the busy, fancy and famous Omotesando shopping street. A close look reveals various curious forms found on the exterior of the building. Hence the building has been executed in somewhat of an anomalous style compared to the other familiar design in the vicinity.

Name:  Tokyo Union Church │Type: Church│Architect: Heng Kitayama (Nishimatsu Construction) │Completed: 1982

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1982 – Embassy of Brazil – Ruy Ohtake

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1982 – Embassy of Brazil – Ruy Ohtake
1982 – Embassy of Brazil – Ruy Ohtake
1982 – Embassy of Brazil – Ruy Ohtake
1982 – Embassy of Brazil – Ruy Ohtake
1982 – Embassy of Brazil – Ruy Ohtake

The Embassy of the Federative Republic of Brazil is characterised by its curved façade and a yolk-yellow volume organised around a small square in front of the building. Its Niemeyer- and Artigas-influenced architect, Ruy Ohtake, was born in São Paulo as son of the Nippo-Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake.

Name: Embassy of Brazil │Type: Office│Architect: Ruy Ohtake │Completed: 1982

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1980 – Shoto Museum of Art – Seiichi Shirai

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1980 – Shoto Museum – Seiichi Shirai
1980 – Shoto Museum – Seiichi Shirai
1980 – Shoto Museum – Seiichi Shirai
1980 – Shoto Museum – Seiichi Shirai
1980 – Shoto Museum – Seiichi Shirai
1980 – Shoto Museum – Seiichi Shirai
1980 – Shoto Museum – Seiichi Shirai

This quite strange piece of 80s architecture is situated in an upscale residential district not far from the busy and fancy Shibuya shopping an entertainment area. Although the building accommodates special exhibits, lectures and workshops for the public, the facade suggests, not a community facility, but a maximum security prison. As in the Noa Building, the entrance is a narrow slit in a rouhly-textured wall.

The wall is clad in Korean granite, and bronze louvers are installed over the opening. Translucent panels of onyx form the ceiling over the vestibule. There are four levels to the building, of which two are belowground, and the spaces are organized around a deep lightwell. After the dramatic buildup, the lightwell is something of anticlimax. The well, adorned with fluted cast-aluminium columns, is spanned by a bridge. Fountains discharche weak trickles of water at the bottom of the space. The gallery, crescent-shaped, is a two-story space overlooked by a gallery.

Name: Shoto Museum of  Art │Type: Museum│Architect: Seiichi Shirai │Completed: 1980

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