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After
graduating from the Department of Architecture
at Kanto Gakuin University, Itsuko Hasegawa became
a research student in the Department of Architecture
at Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1979 she
established Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier. Her projects
include a variety of houses and public buildings.
In 1986 she received the Design prize from the
Architectural Institute of Japan for her Bizan
Hall project. Her residential projects also earned
a Japan Cultural Design Award. She won first prize
in the invited competition for the Shonandai Cultural
Center. In 1997 she was elected as one of the
Honorary Fellows of the RIBA. She has completed
her winning entry for the Niigata City Performing
Arts Center and Area Development.
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commission for the Niigata Performing
Arts Center was won in an open competition
It comprises a 1,900-seat concert hall,
a 900-seat theater, a 375-seat Noh theater,
and is surrounded by an eight hectare
landscaped area. |
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The
project is located on reclaimed
land that until recently
formed part of the Shinano River We
plan to revive the former vibrancy of
this site (an asyl lost to development)
in a new approach to designing city
architecture The project comprises seven
man made floating
islands, linked to each other
and to existing buildings by bridges
suspended in mid air; this proposal
stems from the idea that the new city
should be designed as a natural
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main building is designed along the same limits
as a 'manmaku'
(a temporary screen set up at festivals to
define spatial limits) It is thus a kind of
central open space in the city, not unlike
the asyl of the past, or what the Japanese
term 'harrapa' (empty field) |
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