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Cultural clarity: Cultural and tourist information centre, Tokyo by Kengo Kuma Associates.

External perspective

Photo credits: Takeshi Yamagishi.

The recently opened Culture and tourist information centre by Kengo Kuma Associates looks to create a new type of layered architecture. The concept is to pile-up buildings from the surrounding Asakusa district extending it’s liveliness vertically. The irregular façade suggests a series of roofs, each of which enclose a particular activity beneath. Read more

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