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Article: Grand arch. (community center in Gotsu, Japan)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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A small town in Japan called on Shin Takamatsu to make a social and cultural centre that would give the community presence. He responded with a building that combines figure with remarkable quirkiness.
Gotsu in the Shimane Prefecture, which is to the west of Hiroshima in southern Japan, is not a large community, but it has grand ideas. The municipality commissioned Shin Takamatsu to make a communal and cultural centre which would be a focus for the town. The programme was ambitious: the centre is to contain a 700 seat general-purpose hall, a library for 70 000 books, offices for the town's social welfare department, as well as various other functions.
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