More images from Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan: this time the Za Koenji Public Theatre in Tokyo, Japan, by Japanese architect Toyo Ito.
The building is a contemporary performing arts theatre that produces, presents and supports music, dance, drama and storyteling in the Suginami area of Tokyo.
These photographs will be published in the June 2009 edition of Abitare magazine.
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Posted by Brad Turner
June 17th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
>>one very nice piece of arch indeed! imposing inconspicuousness at its best.
June 17th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
how good the architecture might be…it alienates it self form the surrounding leaving dead facades at all front…
it doesn’t places itself well in urban context….
June 17th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
beautiful outside expression which is a fragment to the inside – sad if you make it mostly scenographic with the little help of your friend, the lighting designer …
June 17th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
It looks somehow cheap and cardboardish.
Apart from the concrete parts,
the interior shots look like being taken from a
model.
The upper “cafe” seems additionally
very confined.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I agree with both dominique and kanwal; i’m wondering if perhaps there is a communal connection we are not privy to? Perhaps the idea of this building is the dual life of a theater… vibrant and full of life when the show is on, but quiet and alone when the stage goes quiet. Perhaps its lack of contextual connection explores the idea of this quiet time as well as it highlights a theater’s communal importance
June 17th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
love the lights projected in the floor!
June 17th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
The fact that MADianito mentions, in spite of all the concrete, steel, wood, glass, design, money and work that went it to the building, the ‘light projected in the floor!’ as the buildings most noticeable achievement is paradigmatic for the quality of the design.
June 18th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
great, i love Ito more and more
June 18th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
this is a beautiful thing! to bad dezeen is to fancy for stage design. and i dont tink at the cheesy american monumental stage design. i want to see some of das deutsches theater or any instalation inside a theater. things that any desiger or architect should know or at least have a small knowledge about.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
I like all aspects of the approach (urban including – it looks like temporal tent, pavilion of an old times).
June 19th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
i can’t understand any of the comments,
too many europeans,
british commentaries for british people i say
June 20th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Very interesting.
Bold public buildings are always a good thing… depending on context of cause.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:23 pm
The configuration from outside reminds me of Hans Scharoun’s Berlin Philharmonic.
August 7th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
just visited the building today…the roof line remains me of one of H&dM projects…inside quite impressive… it makes the small and simple space to look so grand and dramatic…a cheap trick,but it works so good…it is nice for theater space…the radish color helps a lot. Forget about how it fits in the surroundings…it doesn’t matter in Japan!