Art Tower Mito
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Art Tower Mito is an arts complex in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. It opened in 1990 as part of the centennial celebrations of the municipality of Mito. There is a concert hall that seats 680, a theater for u
Mito Art Tower
Arata Isozaki
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Arata Isozaki was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and architectural theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. He taught at Colu
Art Tower Mito
…of Mito. There is a concert hall that seats 680, a theater for up to 636, a contemporary art gallery, and a landmark tower, which rises 100 meters. Arata Isozaki was the architect, with acoustical design by Nagata Acoustics. The design is based on the Boerdijk–Coxeter helix. Kairakuen…
Isozaki in 2013
Arata Isozaki in 1996
One of Isozaki's early projects, Oita Medical Hall (1959-1960), "mixed New Brutalism and Metabolist Architecture," according to one critic
Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona (1990)