Omotesando Hills (表参道ヒルズ, Omotesandō hiruzu) was built in 2005, in a series of Tokyo urban developments by Mori Building. officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. is considered to be Japan 's most powerful and influential building tycoon It occupies a two hundred and fifty meter stretch of Omotesandō, a famous shopping and (previously) residential road in Aoyama sometimes termed Tokyo's Champs-Élysées. is an avenue subway station and neighborhood in the Minato and Shibuya wards in Tokyo stretching from Harajuku station the foot of the The Avenue des Champs-Élysées (ʃɑ̃zeliˈze) is the most prestigious avenue in Paris. It was designed by Tadao Ando, and contains over 130 shops and 38 apartments. is a Japanese Architect whose approach to Architecture was once categorised as Critical regionalism.
The construction of Omotesando Hills, built at a cost of $330 million, has been marked by controversy. [1] The building replaced the Bauhaus-inspired Dōjunkai Aoyama Apartments, which had been built in 1927 after the 1923 Kantō earthquake. ("House of Building" or "Building School" is the common term for the, a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts and was famous Dōjunkai ( Shinjitai:, Kyūjitai:) was a corporation set up a year after the 1923 Kantō earthquake to The struck the Kantō plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 1158 on the morning of September 1, 1923. [2] The destruction of the apartments again raised questions about Japan's interest in preserving historic buildings. [3]
Minoru Mori noted that there had been resistance from local landowners to the use of Ando as architect, saying that they were concerned that his buildings were too fashionable for the area. [4]
Regarding the construction, Ando said, "It's not Tadao Ando as an architect who has decided to rebuild and make shops, it was the owners themselves who wanted it to be new housing and to get some value with shops below. My task was how to do it in the best way. ”[5]
References
- ^ Attention Avid Shoppers: A High-End Complex Opens Its Doors. The New York Times (February 15, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-03-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty
- ^ Omotesando Hills Project Page. Mori Building (January 19, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty
- ^ Dwellers bought off; ball to fall on Aoyama flats. The Japan Times (April 19, 2002). Retrieved on 2007-03-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty
- ^ The view from the Hills: Minoru Mori defends the Omotesando Hills development and reveals big plans for Tokyo. Metropolis (February 3, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty
- ^ Tadao Ando Interview. Icon Magazine (September, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty
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