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Library · Contemporary

Kanazawa Umimirai Library

Kazumi Kudo and Hiroshi Horiba · Kanazawa, Japan · 2011

Key featuresConcrete skin punctured by some 6,000 small circular glass blocks in a triangular array.

Architect
Kazumi Kudo and Hiroshi Horiba
Place
Kanazawa, Japan
Year
2011
Typology
Library
Movement
Contemporary
Region
East Asia
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