Wow! Sta. | Takeru Shoji Architects
Designed by Takeru Shoji Architects, Wow! Sta. is situated in Horinouchi, in the Central Ward of Niigata City – an area where the city center gradually begins to give way to the suburbs. The scenery lining the nearby main road is dominated by large commercial and retail buildings and their accompanying signage.
The businesses, houses, and multilevel apartments that sprawl out from Niigata Station constitutes this typical inner-city area.
Photography: Koichi Satake
Located just one street back from the main road with its dazzling lights and the din of the traffic, we find an area that is surprisingly calm, unlit by even street lights.
Our site bisects these two vastly different environs, in an area where rules concerning pace and time, scale and ambiance are not clearly defined. In order to bring some order to this disarray, and to inject life into the area while building a bridge between these contrasting environments, we wanted this project to embody the following two apparent features:
First, the inclusive nature of the area, with its associated sense of locality. And second, the attractive nature of the area to outsiders, with its associated suburban accessibility and common spaces.
The realization of this project, a multipurpose complex, entailed land selection, programming, construction, management, rethinking the typical problems associated with both urban and suburban projects from a vantage point somewhere between the two.
The three-story building is stee...
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