Architect Jun Aoki's new facade for Louis Vuitton in Tokyo's Ginza district is a glowing tour de force that sets the shop apart from the Matsuya Department Store that houses it.
Despite Japan's energy belt-tightening, triggered by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake of 2011, dazzling lighting effects still bedeck most luxury boutiques in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. But a new Louis Vuitton facade designed by Jun Aoki trumps them all, with understated, energy-conscious elegance. The eight-story aluminum skin wrapping a corner of the existing Matsuya Department Store building is illuminated by a subtle light grid, realized not by using more electricity but by using less.
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