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Prada Aoyama Tokyo [With 32-Page Booklet in Japanese]

Prada Aoyama Tokyo [With 32-Page Booklet in Japanese]

Bertelli, Patrizio
Celant, Germano
Prada, Miuccia

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ISBN10: 8887029261
ISBN13: 9788887029260
Publisher: Fondazione Prada
Published: Apr 2 2004
Pages: 385
Weight: 2.72
Height: 1.33 Width: 6.42 Depth: 8.42
Language: English
In the Aoyama district of Tokyo, a mixed-use neighborhood of low-rise buildings where not a square meter of land has been left unoccupied, the Swiss architecture team of Herzog & de Meuron has built a new store for Prada. In this chunky, silvery book, they meticulously illustrate the creative process that led to the realization of a house and a plaza, a tall and narrow kaleidoscope-like structure that houses a two-story retail space and multiple levels of offices, backed by an outdoor space for the public--a rarity in crowded Tokyo. The finished structure, encased in a visually porous shell or skin, is as decorative as it is architectural--or as architectural as it is decorative--and is both metaphorically and literally linked to its surrounding environment, and to the idea of the garment. Here is the story of a theoretically and structurally complex building told lovingly and simply by its architects, through words, models, sketches, photographs and architectural renderings.

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