Tokyo Midtown
Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Communication Arts Inc.'s design of the Galleria at Tokyo Midtown helps renew and re-image a downtown area, incorporates open space into a tight, multilevel site and includes design elements that the community embraced. The four-story, 500-foot-long open arcade hosts high-end tenants such as Harry Winston and Bottega Veneta and helps knit together adjacent office and residential towers. The 221,000 square feet of retail space sits neatly on a 19.4-acre site in part through the use of three courtyards arranged end to end. That, in turn, helped make way for a 4.5-acre park as part of the project. The choice of materials — glass with wood and wood veneers — evokes regional architecture.
Project Name
Tokyo Midtown
Location
Tokyo
Square Footage
221,000 square feet
Retail Architect
Communication Arts Inc.
Developer/Owner
Mitsui Fudosan
Credits
Master Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merill LLP
Architect of Record
Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Landscape Design
EDAW Inc.
Retail Building D North Architect
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Residential Building D South Architect
Sakakura Atelier
Park Residences Exterior Consultant
Jun Aoki Associates
21_21 Design Sight Architect
Tadao Ando Architects & Associates
Suntory Museum Building D North Architect
Kengo Kuma & Associates
