An icon in the making, Ginza Place is the latest addition to Tokyo’s Ginza 4-Chome Crossing—the city’s equivalent of the intersection at New York’s Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. Marking one corner, this 11-story commercial building is defined by webs of metal panels tautly stretched across its wraparound facade. By day, the eye-popping surface is hard to miss. But at night its backlit front becomes a focal point of the city’s most famous junction.
Recently completed by Klein Dytham architecture (KDa), the project began after the Tokyo-based firm won a 2013 competition to design the building’s facade and massing. Though the landowner, Sapporo Real Estate, and the construction company, Taisei Corporation, had already determined the floor plate size and reinforced-concrete structure, the project needed a signature architect to give it a strong identity, explains KDa coprincipal Mark Dytham. Known for clever and highly creative solutions, KDa was a logical choice for this extremely high-profile job.
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