techPlate 168 · Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo International Forum

A glass ship of a forum, with a keel of trusses you can walk under.

1996 · Rafael Viñoly · Asia

The chamber score

Rokudan no Shirabe

Yatsuhashi Kengyō · 17th c.

Six sections, like a pavilion counted in reflections.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Viñoly's convention centre, among Tokyo's great public interiors.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Tokyo International Forum through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Tokyo International Forum was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.