2024-05-11T00:36:30-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150366933/sou-fujimoto-designs-pace-gallery-tokyo-expansion-inside-heatherwick-s-azabudai-hills-development Josh Niland 2023-09-05T16:57:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c6/c6d0f4f57f6bf53b7db1b1dbcd6ff3b3.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The new home of the Pace Gallery in Tokyo will feature interior spaces designed by <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/65588/sou-fujimoto-architects" target="_blank">Sou Fujimoto</a> inside a three-story portion of <a href="https://archinect.com/heatherwick" target="_blank">Heatherwick Studio</a>&rsquo;s exciting new <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1395632/toranomon-azabudai" target="_blank">Azabudai Hills</a> development, according to plans revealed today by the gallery.</p> <p>The total 5,500-square-foot design includes some 3,000 square feet of exhibition spaces split between the first and second floors of the gallery. A third floor will also include a private terrace and sculptural garden connected to the landscape component of the 20-acre site, which sits prominently at the nexus of several other cultural destinations in the city&rsquo;s busy <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/2164952/toranomon" target="_blank">Toranomon</a> commercial district.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dd/ddaca4f90d90b1bc73d5664250f17b9e.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dd/ddaca4f90d90b1bc73d5664250f17b9e.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Rendering &copy; DBOX for Mori Building Co., Ltd</figcaption></figure><p>The designer of the 2013 Serpentine Pavilion and Musashino Art University Museum and Library will deliver a space that is evocative of his personal explorations and approach to architecture.&nbsp;<br></p> <figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1b/1b0af2d5acc2ce104afeb3835d00e146.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1b/1b0af2d5acc2ce104afeb3835d00e146.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Rendering &copy; DBOX for Mori Building Co., Ltd</figcaption></figure><p>Pace says it has been interested in a Japanese expansion since at least the la...</p>