Tokyo International Forum – Conference Center for the City of Tokyo: Sketches

01/01/1989

Architectural Design, Sketches, Perspective

Four ink and nine pencil early perspective sketches, all showing the same corner and sides of the building complex exterior and investigating the articulation of volumes, walls and details.

Drawing:

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Tracing Paper, Original on Paper

Size:

13 3/4"x22, 11"x16/7/8", 18x30 1/2"

Content of

Project 1 Items

Tokyo International Forum: Conference Center for City of Tokyo 1989

3-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Civic, Designed, Invited Competition, Not built

Client:

Tokyo International Forum Project Office, Bureau of Citizens and Cultural Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Hansjoachim Neis, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Eleni Coromvli, Gary Black, Annie der Bedrossian

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $750,000,000

Project stages:

Preliminary Design drawings Construction innovation methods

Invited design competition entry for a complex of conference halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, and other public facilities at a central site in downtown Tokyo, occupied by the City Hall, which was to be razed to make way for this project. ...