Grand arch. (community center in Gotsu, Japan)

The Architectural Review | July 1, 1996| | Copyright

A small town in Japan called on Shin Takamatsu to make a social and cultural centre that would give the community presence. He responded with a building that combines figure with remarkable quirkiness.

Gotsu in the Shimane Prefecture, which is to the west of Hiroshima in southern Japan, is not a large community, but it has grand ideas. The municipality commissioned Shin Takamatsu to make a communal and cultural centre which would be a focus for the town. The programme was ambitious: the centre is to contain a 700 seat general-purpose hall, a library for 70 000 books, ...

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