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2015

Good Design Award

Award-winning item
memorial place [Stone memorial place]
Business Owner
Teawase
Category
Architecture and facilities for public
Company
Teawase (Japan)
Koishikawa architects (Japan)
Kawazoe Laboratory, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Award Number
15G101012
Outline of Good Design Award winners
Outline of Good Design Award winners 2015

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Outline

" Ishi-no-kinendo ",stands on a hillside in Ishinomaki, is built as a space where people pray for the nearly 18,000 people missing and died in Japan Earthquake.The number of laminated stones represent that of victims, and visitors can think of each of the victims as well as the entire east area of Japan.The shape of the pray space, which was made of locally-produced stone and mirrored stainless, indicates heavily affected areas so that visitors naturally stand and pray toward them.laminated stone space is also aimed to memorize the fact of this major disaster and go down to future generations.

Producer

Noritaka ISHIKAWA, Hiroya KOBIKI, Koishikawa architects + Yoshiyuki KAWAZOE, Associate professor, Kawazoe Lab., UTokyo

Director

Noritaka ISHIKAWA, Hiroya KOBIKI, Koishikawa architects + Yoshiyuki KAWAZOE, Associate professor, Kawazoe Lab., UTokyo

Designer

Noritaka ISHIKAWA, Hiroya KOBIKI, Koishikawa architects + Yoshiyuki KAWAZOE, Associate professor, Kawazoe Lab., UTokyo

小引寛也+石川典貴

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http://ko-ishikawa.com

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