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TOYOTA L&F Hiroshima DATA Design: TEZUKA Takaharu & Yui + IKEDA Masahiro Location: Shoko Center 2-16-10,  Nishi-Ku, Hiroshima City Purpose of Use: Office, Maintenance Factory Completed in: 2003 Total Floor Area: 1504sqm Structure: S map (mapion) map (Google Map) The office and maintenance factory of a forklift manufacturer, standing on the reclaimed land, is designed by architects TEZUKA Takaharu and Yui, married business partners. It looks like a hangar, as simple as a "box." The structure is also very simple. The 0.6-meter-thick beams make a 45-meter span without any pillars. The office and factory are arranged inside using partitions. The frontal face is 45 meters wide and nine meters high. The left half is for the office and the right for the factory. The office is again installed with boxes to make room for conference rooms, etc. The factory front has a sliding door of three panels, each of which is 7.5 meter wide and 8 meters high. The door can be fully opened. [Access] Tram: 12 minutes on foot from Hiroden Kusatsu Minami tram stop. hiroshima tips / Transportation #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 Created on May 12, 2006 Last updated on Dec 20, 2008 Written by makoto Translated by jasmine Photos taken by makoto Camera: NikonD70 Photos on this page are licensed under a Creative Commons License. You are free to copy and make commercial use of them under the conditions "Attribution" and "No Derivative Works". [about copyright] OTHER DISTRICTS INDEX (CC) arch-hiroshima 2006