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Bortom I.M.Pei Bell Tower

Misono. Shiga. Japan. 1992 located at the end of a curviog ceremoniał way paved with old stonet from the streets of Kyoto, which is located one hour by car from this site. Pei's Bell Tower forms the entrance to a vast open plaża. At the other end of the plaża is located the sanctuary of the Shinji Shumeikai sect, designed by Minoru Yamasaki.

Pei is completing a museum for the same sect on a site 1 km from this one.

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Philippe Starek La Flamme

Asahi Breweries, Tokyo, Japan, 1990

Starek says with an impish grin that he is a'creator of monsters." Some of his critics might be tempted to agree with that assess-ment in front of this surprising "black granite urn placed on a luminescent glass stairway. and topped with a golden flame.'

The Japanese economic downturn in the 1990s seems to have put a stop to the construction of such eccentric buildings, at least temporarily.

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