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'Artelligent' Living: Japan's New Roppongi Hills Complex |
| Section: THE ARTS / INTERARTS |
| Author: Iris Brooks |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 2,308 Words, 14,556 Characters |
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Imagine a television studio with a six-story glass atrium overlooking traditional Japanese gardens, or a nine-screen cinema complex with an earthquake-resistant roof planted with rice paddies, or an elevator whose floor lights change color on every story as you ascend to an art museum at the top of a towering skyscraper. The newly opened Roppongi Hills in Tokyo--just a fifteen-minute walk from the Imperial Palace--offers all this and more. An impressive urban redevelopment project and cultural mecca that covers 28.7 acres, the multiuse complex is a place for living, working, playing, shopping, thinking, learning, and creating.
"People want to get involved in art of their time," says David Elliott, the director of the Mori Art Museum, part of the Mori Arts center that occupies the top se...
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...yle, education, research, and culturally related business such as media and others. In other words, the concept of a culture center as the grand design of this city means a stage on which the intellect and sense of our people will be exchanged and mingled with that of other people of the world to create new and innovative ideas and values."
For more information, go to www.roppongihills.com.
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