Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
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| Sendai Mediatheque | |
| Designer | Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, Tokyo, Japan |
| Location | Sendai, Japan |
| Date | 1997 to 2001 |
| Building Type | Library |
| Construction System | Steel, reinforced concrete, and glass |
| Climate | Subtropical |
| Context | Urban |
| Street Address | 2-1, Kasuga-machi, Aoba-ku Walk Score |
| Notes | The building comprises 13 steel-ribbed shafts (tubular columns) and 7 steel-ribbed slabs (sandwiched steel-plate construction). Basement has seismic energy-absorbing mechanisms. |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | City of Sendai |
| Cost | US$101,454,000 (13 billion yen) |
| Area | 233,383 sq. ft. (21,682 sq. m.) |
| Stories | 7 |
| Height | 120 ft. (36.49 m.) |
The Sendai Mediatheque is a library in Sendai, Japan designed by Toyo Ito. The building's structural system comprises 7 floors. Each floor is a honeycomb slab of sandwiched steel-plate construction supported by 13 independently spaced supercolumns built around circular openings in the floor slab. The building employs a double-skin glazed facade along its western edge, and similar construction encloses the building's other three facades.
Construction began on December 17, 1997 and was completed on August 10, 2000. The building opened on January 26, 2001.
[edit] 2011 Sendai Earthquake
Video Footage from within the Sendai Mediatheque during the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011.
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[edit] References
- Phaidon Press Inc. The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. New York, NY: Phaidon Press Inc., 2004. ISBN 0-7148-43121. p 138.
- Sendai Mediatheque at Galinsky
- Sendai Mediatheque at Toyo Ito & Associates web site
- Architectural Features at Sendai Mediatheque official web site
- "Toyo Ito", by C.B. Liddell, ArchitectureWeek No. 509, 2011.0304, p C1.1
[edit] External Links
- Sendai Mediatheque at City of Sendai web site
- Sendai Mediatheque at the RIBA web site (RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2006 awarded to Toyo Ito)
- Sendai Mediatheque - Japan Articles, 2010.07
