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Christopher Hawthorne's "infatuation" with Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, Omishima Island, Japan Courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects / Daici Ano The Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture on Omishima Island was designed by Ito himself. Image via latimes.com This seven-story building holds a library, gallery space and community rooms -- a complicated collection of spaces that Ito unifies through ingenious structural means. (Courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, Nacasa and Partners Inc.) Image via latimes.com. World Games Stadium, completed in 2009, features nearly 9,000 solar panels. (Christian Richters). Image via latimes.com.

This seven-story building holds a library, gallery space and community rooms -- a complicated collection of spaces that Ito unifies through ingenious structural means. (Courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, Nacasa and Partners Inc.) Image via latimes.com.
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This seven-story building holds a library, gallery space and community rooms -- a complicated collection of spaces that Ito unifies through ingenious structural means. (Courtesy of Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects, Nacasa and Partners Inc.) Image via latimes.com.