Housing and retail building in Sengawa (仙川アベニュー・アネックスⅡ)
Sengawa, Chofu (Tokyo)
Sources checked October 2026
- Year
- 2004
- Architect
- Tadao Ando
- Type
- Mixed-use building (housing and shops)
- Access
- Private building, visible from the street
Completed in 2004, this building combines apartments and shops. It is one of six that Tadao Ando's office designed on either side of a single street in Sengawa, in Chofu, all on the motif of a concrete-and-glass box.
History
South of Sengawa station, a family owned a long strip of land that a metropolitan road, decided in 1990, was to cut through. To avoid uncontrolled development on either side, the owner wanted a coherent streetscape and entrusted the design to Tadao Ando, whose office agreed in 1995. This building, completed in 2004, is one of the six that the office designed on either side of the new road.
Architecture
Like the other buildings of the street, it takes up the motif of a box clad in concrete and glass, which gives the whole its unity.
Use today
The building houses apartments and shops.
Sengawa, Chofu (Tokyo)
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