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Roppongi Hills' nerve center is Mori
Tower, a 54-story office building by Kohn
Pedersen Fox that houses the Mori Arts Center, made up
of the Mori Art Museum, a social club, a multi-purpose academic
facility, and observation decks. Atypically large floor plates
- approximately 120,000 s.f. each - enable the insertion of
alternative uses beyond the typical office environments; the
Center itself within the top four floors of the tower below
the sky deck. To give the Center a presence it is divided
into two components: the interior spaces within the tower
and an entry structure at ground level that is the project's
sole exterior expression. The conical entry pavilion, designed
by New York's Gluckman
Mayner Architects is a glass-clad, freestanding element
with overlapping glass panes,
much like the scales of a fish.
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