Koga Park Café
A glass-walled café blending into a 25-hectare park landscape.
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Koga Park Café, a restaurant in Ibaraki's Park of Koga, sits sixty kilometers north of Tokyo. Designed by the architecture firm SANAA—led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryuei Nishizawa—and engineered by Mutsuro Sasaki, it was built between 1996 and 1998.
The building is a cuboid shape, set against a gentle northern hill slope and overlooking a lake to the south. All four sides are transparent glass, giving diners a panoramic view of the 25-hectare park. Completed early in SANAA's career, the café served as a prototype for the firm's "unified, horizontal, non-hierarchical" architectural style.
Did You Know?
- The café's roof is a single 25 millimeter steel plate, supported by 100 tubular steel posts that are three metres tall and approximately 60 millimeters in diameter.
- Four 60 millimeter thick steel-plate shear panels at each end manage the building's horizontal stress.
- The building's mirror-finish stainless steel and reflectant furnishings create a 'symbiotic effect with the landscape,' making it appear immaterial.
- The park surrounding the café stretches across 25 hectares in surface area.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Koga Park Café?
Koga Park Café is located in 399-1 Konosu, Koga, Ibaraki 306-0041, Japan.
Who designed Koga Park Café?
Koga Park Café was designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.
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