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Big projects arise from collaborations among:

1.Developers
2.Bankers (investors)
3.Planners
4.Contractors
5.Architects
6.Engineers
7.Manufacturers
8.Etc.

Principal reasons why tall buildings emerged:

1.Expedience
2.Transcendence
3.Ambition
4.Dominance

Why they continue to be built:

1.Land values in cities drove expansion skyward
2.Technological developments like elevators, curtain walls, and high-strength steel

https://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/skyscraper-as-symbol
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body. In usage, some of the larger kinds of exoskeletons are
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ZAHA HADID
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SOM – SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL
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LONDON
FOSTER + PARTNERS
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THE INTERNAL SKELETON OF, FOR EXAMPLE, A HUMAN OR FISH
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JAPAN, 2001
TOYO ITO
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TOKYO, 2005
PELLI CLARKE PELLI ARCHITECTS

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 Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo
Lobby/Restaurants
・K'shiki, Asian Inspired Dining
・Oriental Lounge
・Sushi SORA
・Tapas Molecular Bar

Restaurants in Mandarin Oriental,

Tokyo
・Signature, French Inspired Dining
・Sense, Cantonese Dining
・Sense Tea Corner
・Mandarin Bar

Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo

Guest rooms

Tenant offices

Mitsui Memorial Museum

Mitsui Tower Clinic

Muromachi Dental Clinic

Office/ Typical floor 3006㎡

Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo
Grand Ballroom
Chapel
Banquet halls, wedding
& banquet salon

Office lobby
Connecting passageway to the Mitsui
Nigokan
Wine & Dining De Meter
Caf'e Sembikiya Fruit Parlor
Ventaglio, Italian Dining
Japanese Cuisine Sakuragawa
Wired Caf'e News

Atrium
Entrance to the Mitsui Memorial
Museum
Entrance to Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo
Caf'e di Festa
Fruit Shop Sembikiya
HANAHIRO CQ
Mitsui-Sumitomo Sembikiya So-honten
Banking Corp Nihonbashi-honten-boutique
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Mandarin Oriental Gourmet Shop
Bank

Hakata cuisine Kuroudo

Oden Ogura
La Bettola per tutti
Convenience store FamilyMart
Drug store Nihonchouzai
NihonbashiMuromachiDrugstore
Akita Hinai jidori chicken Hinomoto
Hinaiya
Toray Shop (Toray products
distribution)
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Shinsei Bank ATM
Bank Subway

Parking

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TALL BUILDINGS AS A PIECE OF ART
MAX REINHARDT HAUS (PROPOSAL)
BERLIN
PETER EISENMAN
GLOWING TIMES SQUARE (PROPOSAL)
TAIWAN
MVRDV
COMMERCIAL AND PUBLIC SPACES
LALAPORT TOKYO BAY
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TOKYO, 2005
EARTHSCAPE

© Laguarda. Low Architects.

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