Culture & sport · Late modernism

West Japan General Exhibition Center

Arata Isozaki · Kitakyushu, Japan · 1977

Key featuresMasts and cables suspend a long exhibition hall roof, recalling the cranes of the nearby port.

• Tensile structure
• Structure as expression
• Steel & glass

Architect

Arata Isozaki

Place

Kitakyushu, Japan

Year

1977

Typology

Culture & sport

Movement

Late modernism

Region

East Asia