Grand arch. (community center in Gotsu, Japan) The Architectural Review | July 1, 1996| | COPYRIGHT 1996 EMAP Architecture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) 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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