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I'm no architecture expert, so I may be off-base, but it recalls for me Frank Lloyd Wright, or... I don't know the names of the architects, but just a very particular aesthetic of American architecture, of a very particular time. In short, this is the very opposite of timeless. It was old and out of date almost immediately upon being completed. And what the hell does this say of "Japan"? Of course you don't want something too Orientalist, but, hey, if UH can have a recreation of a Korean palace, I don't see why they couldn't go all the way here, so long as it was traditionally accurate enough. Why build this thing that looks like it came right out of That 70s Show?
More modern buildings around Potsdamer Platz...
Encore des édifices modernes dans le quartier des affaires autour de Potsdamer Platz
The Dancing House (Czech: Tančící dům), or Fred and Ginger, is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building on the Rašínovo nábřeží (Rašín Embankment) in Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in cooperation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996
Architects
Ignasi Paricio i Ansuategui
Lluis Clotet i Associats S.L.
2002-2005
What seems as a differing floor plan is in the end only a storey construction with variable weather protection panels.
As the only building, it reminded me always of my 1993 project at ETH for a residential highrise in Bern www.flickr.com/photos/subwave/albums/72157675086064940