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Prada Aoyama    Tokyo, Japan

The Prada flagship store in Tokyo combines an overall figural shape with inset silicate form a grid of rhomboids, each 10 ft 6 in by 6 ft 6 in (3.2 by 2 m). Within
stacked floors and nested tubes to create a steel and glass shopping icon. A the diagonal frame, convex, concave, and flat glass pillows provide a consistently
structural exoskeleton made from 7-1/16–by–8-1/16-in (18 by 20.5 cm) steel varied texture to the building envelope, which comprises ten faceted sides. The
I-sections welded on site and encased in a fire-resistant layer of calcium entire building is set into a concrete tub, where isolation mats stabilize the structure