Yokohama International Ferry Terminal


ArchiNed reportage

juni 2002

The ferry terminal designed by Foreign Office Architects was recently opened to the public. Kurt Handlbauer went to have a look and took some breathtaking pictures.

 

 

London based Foreign Office Architect's (Farshid Moussavi en Alejandro Zaera-Polo) won the Yokohama competition in 1995. The project is a complex network of interconnecting surfaces, forming a continuous structure that connects the boarding level with the entrance to the city and the terminal below. FOA based their design on a circulation diagram of interlocking loops made out of folded steel - resistant to earthquake stresses and evocative of the ship building industry.

(click on the pictures to enlarge and again to let them disappear)

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

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Kurt Handlbauer (email)
Foreign Office Architects