The Japan TimesIf Japan’s art scene was to be summarized in one word it would be “abundance.” Art was plentiful, albeit quiet, though some curation decisions pushed it outside the status quo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/29/art/art-in-japan-2025/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art #2025inreview #art #2025osakaexpo #tadaoando #soufujimoto #aichitrienalle #setouchitrienalle #goforgokei #osakaartanddesign #momat
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Sou Fujimoto has revealed the design for the Hida Furukawa Station Eastern Development, a community centre topped with a bowl-like roof in the town of Hida in Japan.
The multi-purpose building will be set alongside the main railway station in the town, which is located in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture.
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Sou Fujimoto unveils Japanese community centre covered with bowl-like roof
Architect Sou Fujimoto has revealed the design for a community centre topped with a bowl-like roof in the town of Hida, Japan.
Named the Hida Furukawa Station Eastern Development, the multi-purpose building will be located alongside the main railway station in the town in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture.
Sou Fujimoto has designed a circular multipurpose building in Hida
Sou Fujimoto Architects has designed the 21,300-square-metre building to contain shops, a spa and exhibition spaces, alongside research facilities for a local university, student accommodation and an all-weather playing field.
These various functions will be covered by a large circular roof structure that resembles the shape of a bowl, supported on slender white columns.
The roof rises towards the edge of the building
"The development is a vast landscape symbolizing Hida's past and future, its main plaza taking the shape of a bowl, or vessel, in Japanese called utsuwa," said the studio.
"The unique architectural space will give visitors a better awareness of the majestic nature of Hida."
A plaza will be located at its centre
The building's various units will be arranged around its edge, encircling a central plaza positioned where the roof dips to meet the ground.
Punctuated with numerous circular openings, the roof will double as a walkable grass-covered park.
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"The utsuwa is a shed-like roof over crisscrossing paths, inspired by Hida's traditional townscapes," said the studio. "It will be a destination that it is fun to walk through."
"The paths continue to the rooftop where people will go, drawn by their vision of the sky," it continued.
Enclosed structures are located around the edge of the building
Established by Fujimoto in 2000, Sou Fujimoto Architects is one of Japan's best-known architecture studios.
Along with the cultural centre, it is designing a second building in the town of Hida that also has a walkable roof and will house Hida Takayama University.
Another recent project by the studio is the House of Music in Budapest, which is topped with a large rounded roof similar to those featured in the pair of projects in Hida.
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Sou Fujimoto unveils Japanese community centre covered with bowl-like roof
Architect Sou Fujimoto has revealed the design for a community centre topped with a bowl-like roof in the town of Hida, Japan.
Named the Hida Furukawa Station Eastern Development, the multi-purpose building will be located alongside the main railway station in the town in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture.
Sou Fujimoto has designed a circular multipurpose building in Hida
Sou Fujimoto Architects has designed the 21,300-square-metre building to contain shops, a spa and exhibition spaces, alongside research facilities for a local university, student accommodation and an all-weather playing field.
These various functions will be covered by a large circular roof structure that resembles the shape of a bowl, supported on slender white columns.
The roof rises towards the edge of the building
"The development is a vast landscape symbolizing Hida's past and future, its main plaza taking the shape of a bowl, or vessel, in Japanese called utsuwa," said the studio.
"The unique architectural space will give visitors a better awareness of the majestic nature of Hida."
A plaza will be located at its centre
The building's various units will be arranged around its edge, encircling a central plaza positioned where the roof dips to meet the ground.
Punctuated with numerous circular openings, the roof will double as a walkable grass-covered park.
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Read:
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](https://www.dezeen.com/2022/01/12/sou-fujimoto-walkable-rooftop-hida-takayama-university/)
"The utsuwa is a shed-like roof over crisscrossing paths, inspired by Hida's traditional townscapes," said the studio. "It will be a destination that it is fun to walk through."
"The paths continue to the rooftop where people will go, drawn by their vision of the sky," it continued.
Enclosed structures are located around the edge of the building
Established by Fujimoto in 2000, Sou Fujimoto Architects is one of Japan's best-known architecture studios.
Along with the cultural centre, it is designing a second building in the town of Hida that also has a walkable roof and will house Hida Takayama University.
Another recent project by the studio is the House of Music in Budapest, which is topped with a large rounded roof similar to those featured in the pair of projects in Hida.
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Sou Fujimoto creates House of Music in Budapest park "as a continuation of the natural environment"
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has completed a museum dedicated to music topped with an undulating roof punctuated by trees in Budapest's City Park.
Named House of Music, the 9,000-square-metre museum is dedicated to telling the history of music over the past 2,000 years.
Sou Fujimoto's House of Music is located in Budapest's City Park
The museum, which was built on the site of the Hungexpo Offices, is surrounded by trees within Budapest's City Park.
Fujimoto designed the building, which is wrapped in a glass wall and topped by a large overhanging roof, to mimic the feeling of being under a tree canopy.
The museum was designed to evoke a canopy of trees
"We were enchanted by the multitude of trees in the city park and inspired by the space created by them," said Fujimoto.
"Whilst the thick and rich canopy covers and protects its surroundings, it also allows the sun's rays to reach the ground. I envisaged the open floor plan, where boundaries between inside and outside blur, as a continuation of the natural environment."
The roof is punctured by numerous holes
The building's roof is punctuated by 100 openings, some of which contain trees, while others create lightwells that allow natural light into the building.
On the underside of the roof, 30,000 geometric shapes designed to evoke tree leaves have been set in the ceiling.
The ceiling is covered in 30,000 metal leaves
The House of Music has three storeys that were created to reflect "the three movements of a musical score".
Its park-level ground floor is entirely surrounded by 94 custom-manufactured panels made of glass. The largest of these panels is 12 metres tall.
A glass wall surrounds the ground floor
This largely open ground floor space contains two concert halls. A smaller venue will predominantly be used for lectures and workshops, while a glass-walled auditorium with 320 seats will be used for musical performances.
A large basement level will contain all of the museum's main gallery spaces including a permanent exhibition named Sound Dimensions – Musical Journeys in Space and Time, which focuses on the history of European music.
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The institution's first temporary exhibition will focus on key moments in Hungarian pop music from the 1950s to the 1990s.
A hemispherical sound dome, where up to 60 people can experience 360-degree sound from a network of 31 loudspeakers, is also on this level.
A large spiral staircase connects the three floors
Above the main level, the first floor is located within the roof structure. This level contains a multimedia library and archive of Hungarian pop music, as well as classrooms and office spaces.
The three floors are connected by a large feature spiral staircase.
The museum was created as part of the Liget Budapest Project
The House of Music was completed as part of the ambitious Liget Budapest Project, which will see several museums built in Budapest's 122-hectare City Park.
The skateboard-ramp-shaped Museum of Ethnography designed by Hungarian firm Napur Architect is under construction nearby and SANAA has designed the National Gallery of Hungary for a site within the park.
The photography is by Palkó György.
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Sou Fujimoto Architects designs walkable rooftop for rural Japanese university
An accessible rooftop that curves to meet the ground will distinguish the Hida Takayama University, which Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects is designing in Hida City, Japan.
The private university, which is expected to open in April 2024, is set to be built on a rural site in the town that is located in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture.
Sou Fujimoto Architects is designing Hida Takayama University in Japan
Sou Fujimoto Architects' design comprises two curved buildings that will be separated by a courtyard. The larger of the two structures will be topped by the giant accessible rooftop described by the studio as "an open hill".
The university, which is aimed at postgraduates and working adults, will also have 11 other campuses throughout Japan.
The university will be topped by an accessible curved roof
According to Sou Fujimoto Architects, the design references the surrounding mountainous landscape and follows the concept of being "open to beyond".
"Surrounded by beautiful mountains, the entire city of Hida is a large learning plaza where people gather and talk," explained the studio's founder Sou Fujimoto.
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The studio hopes the university will revitalise the rural site, which has a shrinking population, by drawing international attention.
"I would like to create a campus where students, faculty members, and local people can freely interact and connect with the world beyond," Fujimoto said.
In the first visuals released by the studio, Hida Takayama University's undulating roofscape is shown with a textured white finish. It is elevated on wooden pillars that are visible inside the building and separated by tall expanses of glass.
The corridors will be designed to double as usable spaces
Sou Fujimoto Architects will also design the campus so that all of its circulatory spaces and corridors double as a library or places for meeting and learning.
The courtyard that separates the campus will be planted with trees in an attempt to draw nature into the building.
A white undulating rooftop is also the focal point of the House of Hungarian Music, which Sou Fujimoto Architects is currently developing for a leafy site in Budapest's City Park. The roof will be punctured by almost 100 holes through which trees will grow.
Hida Takayama University is not the first university building designed by the studio, which was founded by Fujimoto in 2000. Elsewhere, it designed the stacked learning centre for the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, a library for Musashino Art University in Japan and a tree-filled building for the Université Paris-Saclay in France.
The visuals are courtesy of Sou Fujimoto Architects.
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