This building is built in Meriken Park in Kobe in 1987 for 120th anniversary of Kobe's opening port to foreign ships for trade. It was designed by Frank Gehry and supervised by Tadao Ando, who is a Japanese architect and a professor emeritus of Tokyo University.Its hight is 22 meters, and it is used as a restaurant.
In1991, it was painted pink without permission for prevention against rust, but Frank Gehry criticized that, and in 2005 he painted it silver again.This fish overcame the earthquake in 1995, and has been visited by many people.
After 1980s, he made a lot of things related to fish. Do you think why? There are various opinion, for example that his childhood nickname was 'fish', and that he put a carp into bathtub and played with it when he was littele.
I think this fish looks real and alive. His unrestrained idea is interesting.
The site of the park where you can see the fish is here!
Hi, Natsumi. I think this restaurant proved that how sound his buildings are, because it withstand the big earthquake! And his nickname "fish" is funny. But I'm wondering the reason, do you know why? Anyway, I want to visit here someday.
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I like the design of this building so much!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of food can we eat in this restaurant? Do you know that? I suppose I can eat Sushi, or maybe Italian food. Anyway I really want to go to see the Fish Dance.
Mai
Hi, this is Rina.
ReplyDeleteIt's design is very amasing! I'm interested in what the interior is like, so I want to visit there!