A thousand-meter-long street in Japan, designers look at the building of the "holy land", casually walk around the light can browse a number of famous architects works, to look at this street together with the architectural Tourism Strategy ~

A thousand-meter-long street, can be squeezed into the works of how many famous architects?

The answer: 20.

Don't know where to start when it comes to architecture in Tokyo? Why not start with the street below?

The most famous street in Asia for fashion, food, and architecture, it's about 1 kilometer in length, lined with the world's top fashion brands, and you'll see the work of a celebrity architect every 2 minutes as you walk along. When you go to Tokyo to see architecture, it is the last place you can and should miss - Omotesando.

Omotesando, located in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, Japan. The street is lined with architectural works designed by top European and Japanese architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito, and SANAA for top fashion brands such as Prada, Tod's, and Dior, which is the most gorgeous collision of architecture and fashion.

Omotesando Architecture Roaming Map (Editor's drawing)

Tokyu Plaza has a special shape, and in order to preserve green space in the center of the tightly-packed site, trees have been planted on the roof, making it a new landmark on Omotesando. The building, best known for its kaleidoscope-like entrance, feels dizzy as you ride up the escalator.

The building*** has seven floors, each of which is 60% of the footprint. By twisting the floors one by one, it creates a stepped terrace around the periphery, to which lounge seating and small plants are added. Structurally, the building has support columns running up and down the overlap of each floor.

SANAA's distinctive style of lightness, transparency, simplicity, and white color, all of which are perfectly suited to Dior's brand, is evident in this building.

The building of RAGTAG, the famous Japanese second-hand clothing chain, has a typical Meijima and Sei style - simple glass walls.

Because the building's lifespan was limited to 10 years, the building's construction monoliths were pre-finished in the factory and erected on-site in an assembled fashion that is both easy to build and simple to disassemble.

Unlike other buildings along the street, which are intentionally set back to create an untidy fa?ade, the steps are laid out with semi-outdoor spaces where you can rest, and the building is more communal ****, with an 8-story conical entrance designed to be the same as that of the National Art Museum in Roppongi, which is signed by Kisho Kurokawa himself.

Omotesando Hills, located in Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan, is a complex of commercial facilities, residences and parking lots. The former site was the Aoyama Apartments of the Doyenkai, a Japanese congregate house with a history of more than 80 years. The site is a sloping area that is difficult to handle as it is not possible to build high-rise buildings. However, architect Tadao Ando made it a landmark building in Omotesando by designing it in a smart way from an old house.

Louis Vuitton's Omotesando Hills store is constructed with the imagery of cascading LV suitcases, and the exterior presents a layered sense of square elevations, which has the pure power of returning to simplicity.

The TOD's building is a completely abstract reproduction of the zelkova tree in Omotesando, with intricately intertwined branch walls poured on site with concrete, and more than 200 gaps left between the walls, which are then inlaid with more than 200 pieces of glass of different shapes, and the combination of the concrete walls and the glass is close to a flat surface without interfaces.

The building is constructed of modern reinforced concrete, and the color of the fa?ade is modeled after the trunk of a tree, giving it a detached and rustic aesthetic.

The glass exterior of the building, which is 500 square meters in size and 9.5 meters in height, makes you feel like you are in the midst of a cluster of beech trees. It is also a view of the surrounding buildings and pedestrians.

Harmonizing the building with the surrounding vegetation was one of the goals in the design of this project, so the fa?ade is dominated by a vertical frame of 45cm wide pine veneers. The vertical structure of the fa?ade is aligned with the trunks of the trees in order to achieve a visual echo.

The building has a seemingly floating spiral ramp (15 meters in diameter) that wraps around and climbs to the gallery space on the second floor. Aluminum and glass on the fa?ade reflect the surrounding chaotic street scene.

The building pulls back the monotonous structural columns of the office fa?ade to form a sloping glass fa?ade that flows to separate the street from the interior of the store.

The 840 panes of glass that make up the six-story building are diamond-shaped, with glass-framed latticework that makes the fa?ade as brilliant as a diamond, and a facade that glows with different shades of light.

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The building is divided into two distinct buildings, one enclosed by an all-glass fa?ade, and the other by a combination of vertical lines of stone and glass in a rhythmic slanting angle, with a pedestrian walkway through the building between the two.

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One of Kazumasa Yamashita's masterpieces has distinctive architectural features such as red brick walls, concave and convex terraces, and sky corridors. Inside, the open courtyard space allows people to walk around and see the blue sky above, making the building a commercial, office, and residential complex.

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Completed in 1989, LA COLLEZIONE in Minami-Aoyama is one of Tadao Ando's masterpieces in Omotesando. The basic structure consists of three rectangles and a 21-meter-high cylinder, and the subtle gaps between them create corridors, spiral staircases, and step-like plazas, making it seem as if one is walking through a labyrinth.

The Nezu Museum of Art has an open, tranquil space with a Japanese garden that is lush and green, allowing for the pleasure of appreciation in a vast space.

Taro Okamoto, widely known for his avant-garde sculptures and paintings during Japan's most famous modern artification movement, opened his home and studio to the public in the form of a small art gallery after he passed away in 1996. The studio itself, built by the famous Japanese architect Junzo Sakakura, is well worth a visit. The concrete walls with an eye-shaped roof are also considered one of the finest works of modern architecture. There is also a sculpture garden in the memorial, with Taro Okamoto's carvings dotted among the tropical plants.