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Available in 5 locations: At the front and side of Famima!! in the B1F underground concourse, near the Tokyo Station (Keiyo Line) entrance on B1F, on B1F of the Glass Building on the Yurakucho Station side, and on B1F of the Glass Building on the Tokyo Station side. Hours: 7:00 – 23:30.
Official Website. Access. Tokyo International Forum Co., Ltd. 5-1 Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo International Forum 11F) Opening Hours: 7:00am to 11:30pm. By Train. JR Line. 1-minute walk from Yurakucho Station. 5-minute walk from Tokyo Station (the concourse on the first basement floor connects with Tokyo Station on the Keiyo Line)
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The Tokyo International Forum, commissioned by the Metropolitan Government of Japan’s capital, is the only civilian complex that hosts cultural events and business events. In the open international competition held in 1987 was won by architect Rafael Viñoly. The result of that competition was announced in 1989. Conceived as an integrated cultural i...
Located at the confluence of four subway lines and two main train stations, the site generates a significant pedestrian traffic. Their address is 5-1 Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The Tokyo International Forum (TIF) is located in the commercial heart of the Nippon capital, in the district of Marunouchi (丸 の 内) located in Chiyoda bet...
Given the significant pedestrian traffic would create the complex, Viñolywith your design attempted to provide easy access for the public and provide impact protection of the surroundings. The architect has linked its Crystal Hall with public spaces of the nineteenth century, comparing both the Gallery in Milan as the Crystal Palace in Madrid, with...
Within a perimeter bordered by a granite wall landscaped plaza that extends below the four spaces suspended from performing arts shows. The lobbies of the theater looking over the square that serves as civic space and visually sneak into the Crystal Hall, the great glass enclosure that hangs over the frame of 208 meters long and nearly 60 high. At ...
Glass Hall
The structure resembling the curved shell of a boat is glass and steel, structural steel frame and a mega-network for glass curtain wall. The Crystal Hall, one of the most daring structures ever built in Japan, consists of two intersecting ellipses glass and steel, enclosing a large central hall and unite the elements of the complex. This structure consists of eleven floors above ground, 60 meters high and three below. The 60 meter high curtain wall laminated glass was specially designed tran...
Cover Yurakucho
This totamente glass cover, the free structure was first done for this Forum, has around 5 meters wide with a length of 11 meters cantilever. Until then the maximum length of sheets of tempered glass available was 5 meters, in England. A series of plates with temperate 19mm thick sheets and pierced individually, were joined together by bearings glass forming cantilevered beams on the cover support. The number of sheets that overlap increases towards support, consistent with the bending moment...
In the front of the Glass Hall approximately 20,000m2 17.5mm laminated glass, heat-strengthened used. Laminated glass is made sandwiching a plastic interlayer between two sheets of glass and has been commonly used in the windshields of cars. Using this material architects were able to satisfy both aesthetic needs in the design of the center, as wel...
- Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
The Tokyo International Forum is a multi-purpose exhibition center in Tokyo, Japan. The complex is generally considered to be in the Yūrakuchō business district, being adjacent to Yūrakuchō Station , but it is administratively in the Marunouchi district.
The Tokyo International Forum is a convention and art center equipped with a range of facilities including 8 small-to-large size halls, 34 conference rooms, a symbolic glass atrium, a refreshing and plant-filled ground-level plaza.
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