Terrace Building

Tokyo, Japan
Photo © KOP
Photo © KOP
Photo © KOP
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Architects
Akira Koyama / Key Operation Inc.
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Year
2013

Tasked with designing a multistory restaurant building with terraces, the architects focused on how to make each floor’s terrace uniquely attractive.  Medium-rise office buildings and condominiums as well as low-rise residences surround the site.

To determine the placement of the terraces, the architects considered how the structure should open onto this surrounding environment at various heights. They settled on a design in which the terraces circle the building like an ascending staircase, linking with one another to lend a sense of unification to the structure as a whole.

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