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Hara's Umeda Sky Building |
Hiroshi Hara, 1936-2007
This 1993 building in Osaka, known as the Umeda Sky Building, is one of my favourite skyscrapers - the top-level interconnection is something very special. I like him even more after reading this quote from him on one of his houses, built in 2003: "The materialisation of a complex semiotic field subject to temporal transformation is the essential concept of the design."