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Posted by Alfredo J. Martiz J. (Panama City, Panama) on 10 July 2008 in Cityscape & Urban.

This photo was shot from one of the exterior stairs of Gyre, a new building in Omotesandō designed by MVRDV, and shows the surrounding Aoyama neighborhood as you walk away from Omotesandō.
Omotesandō is an avenue connecting Aoyama-dori and Meiji-dori, and a fashion neighborhood between them, with its activity concentrated along the brand shops on the sides of the avenue and having some extension to the small streets away from it. I find interesting that in such a small radius of influence you have completely different urban scales, ranging from the wide avenue with the brand stores on the side to a dense network of small streets and small buildings away from it. It feels as if these urban environments where completely unrelated because of the immediate difference in density and character.

Gyre, Omotesando. March 26th, 2008

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