The Designs for the Adcanced Commercial
Building-SEED
'86 Sep.1-Sep.25
It was in Shibuya, Tokyo, a bustling center known for its throngs of toung people, that "SEED" was born, the commercial space development centering around the Seibu Department Store. The concept behind SEED was not its function as a facility. Rather, it was an attempt to create an organic, complex image that could anticipate the shapes and strategies of commercial space in the years to come. The exhibition shown how SEED fulfills a design function in transforming an open urban facility into a place that also accommodates the transmission of both information and entertainment.