Tokyo International Forum: Photographs of drawings included in the competition submission
2 2) Original drawing

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. ...

Large building are not easy to design and keep the feeling of intimay in them. The way a large building can be given this quality is by succeeding in the creation of living centers throughout its fabric. The profusion and ...

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

Eight perspective presentation sketches from the train tracks seeing the south and east sides of the building complex, as submitted for the competition; seven more versions of the same perspective depict the final stages of its preparation for submission. The ...

Two versions of the perspecive drawing depicting the interior view of the Grand Lobby, looking towards the entrance of Convention Hall A.

Four photographs of the perspective view of the Convention Hall interior, an enormous room 50 meters by 70 meters, with large columns. The roof is supported by Vierendeel box beams, pierced by giant chrysanthemum voids, which are illumunated.