DAIKANYAMA T-SITE

2011

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Daikanyama T-SITE is a large bookstore complex for Tsutaya one of Japan’s leading media companies. The project’s ambition was to define a new vision for retailing. Slotted between large existing trees on the site, the three pavilions are organized by a “magazine street” that threads through the complex, blurring interior and exterior. Other facilities include a café, an upscale convenience store, and the Anjin lounge. Externally, KDa’s characteristic wit emerges in subtle ways – the perforated screens of the façade are formed from the T’s of the Tsutaya logo, and much larger T-shapes are disguised in the building plans and elevations. The project won the World Architecture Festival Best Retail Award and the Design for Asia Grand Prize.