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Tower of Winds, Yokohama (1986) Sendai Mediatheque, (2001) Toyo Ito (伊東 豊雄, Itō Toyō, born 1 June 1941) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a ...
Early contributions to the ideas behind interactive architecture include New Babylon (Constant Nieuwenhuys) (a massive global city formed from "a series of linked transformable structures") and Cedric Price's Fun Palace ("Designed as a flexible framework into which programmable spaces can be plugged, the structure has as its ultimate goal the possibility of change at the behest of its users ...
The Tower of the Winds, known as the Ωρολόγιο του Κυρρήστου in Greek, and by other names, is an octagonal Pentelic marble tower in the Roman Agora in Athens, named after the eight large reliefs of wind gods around its top.
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Modern computerized lighting can respond to external conditions, as in Toyo Ito's 1986 Tower of Winds in Yokohama, [75] or execute other complex tasks, as in the installation on the facade of the Forty-Second Street Studios in New York, where the color cycling speeds up throughout the week from slow changes on Mondays to changes every few ...
The Gregorian Tower (Italian: Torre Gregoriana) or Tower of the Winds (Italian: Torre dei Venti) is a square tower and early modern observatory located above the Gallery of Maps, which connects the Villa Belvedere with the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.
A woman who showed signs of intoxication was found with her 2-month-old and 1-year-old babies in Houston, Texas during winter storm Enzo, said police.
A distinctive tower standing above the middle of the tunnel, the Kaze no Tō (風 の 塔, "the tower of wind"), supplies air to the tunnel, its ventilation system powered by the bay's almost-constant winds. Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line. Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line bridge.