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Sollogub & Poole, Inc. |
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Rainforest Exhibition and
Tsuhurama Development Osaka, Japan |
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The Rainforest Exhibition and Tsuruhama
Development was proposed by the CSP principals (while at Cambridge Seven) for
a section of Osaka’s waterfront being created with landfill. A combination of mixed use would create a
new community and a destination for residents, national visitors, and
international tourists. The plan
guides a major expressway and a new subway station to deliver large numbers
of people to the site. The landfill
is carved to create a Rocky Coast landscape, organized with fingers of land
and shallow pools between sections of housing. A park is created throughout the site on top of two layers of
parking. Mixed use includes several
thousand housing units, offices for research and technology, a retail
complex, a children’s park, an IMAXâ theater, a hotel conference center, and the
core attraction, an Amazonian Tropical Rainforest. The forest is located within a 300 foot diameter sphere which
rises from a shallow tray of water. Visitors pass under the water to enter
into an underground museum, from which they rise in glass elevators to travel
within and below the canopy, and then finish below the forest floor. To Print Click Here |
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