Over the past 20 years, Osaka architect Shuhei Endo has built a successful practice by blurring boundaries. Using his favored material, steel, the 48-year-old designer has created walls that spiral into roofs [record, December 2001, page 60], interior spaces that ingeniously convert to exterior ones, and most recently, the Miki Disaster Management Park Beans Dome, a convex building that seems to emerge from its parklike surroundings. Encased in a stainless-steel shell mostly covered with grass, this combined tennis dome/emergency center in Hyogo Prefecture ranks among Endo’s boldest works to date.
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