Public Architecture · Contemporary
Ōsanbashi Yokohama International Passenger Terminal横浜港大さん橋国際客船ターミナル
- Location
- Kanagawa Prefecture Yokohama (Naka Ward)
- Completed
- 2002
Photo: Syced, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Overview
The floor becomes the roof. An undulating wooden landscape reaching out to sea.
A passenger ship terminal completed in 2002, based on the scheme by Foreign Office Architects selected in a 1995 international competition.
Floor, walls and roof fold into one continuous surface, creating a large space with few columns or beams. The rooftop of timber decking and lawn is open as a public plaza, with views of Yokohama Port and Minato Mirai.
This description has been translated from the Japanese original.
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- Completed
- 2002
- Architect
- Foreign Office Architects
- Use
- Passenger ship terminal
- Location
- 1-1-4 Kaigan-dōri, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
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Architect
Foreign Office Architects
Foreign Office Architects
An architectural practice founded in London by Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo.
Their Ōsanbashi Yokohama International Passenger Terminal, selected in a 1995 international competition, is known worldwide as an undulating building in which floor, walls and roof are continuous.
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Location
1-1-4 Kaigan-dōri, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
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Sources
References
- 横浜港大さん橋国際客船ターミナル — WikipediaWikipedia日本語版
- Wikidata Q3518430Wikidata
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Photo Credits
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01Yokohama International Passenger Terminal 11.jpg
Photo: Syced
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02Osanbashi Pier from Sea.jpg
Photo: Captain76
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03Osanbashi Pier Yokohama 220604g.jpg
Photo: 江戸村のとくぞう
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04Osanbashi Pier 20221211.jpg
Photo: Suicasmo
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