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001-000374.004
Japan
001-000374, architecture, concrete, design, japan, modern architecture, shibuya, station, tadao ando, tokyo
Tokyu Toyoko Shibuya station
Tadayoshi Nakamura
17 October 09
Jean-Philippe Dain
Tokyo prefecture
Tokyo
JPN
Tokyu Toyoko Shibuya station: wall-back-lighted signs panels --- Designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando (Pritzker Prize 1995), the station is by itself an architectural attraction featuring an egg-shaped entrance to the underground subway lines operated by the Tokyu Corporation subway company. Completed in 2008, bricks of prefabricated glass fibre-reinforced concrete (GFRC) was used for every surface (floors, walls, ceilings and columns). Tokyo, Japan, October 2009.