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01 Mar, 2009

Osaka’s Gate Tower Building: surviving collision with Hanshin Expressway

Posted by: brb In: Japan| architecture

One of the most curious buildings in Japan is the Gate Tower Building in Umeda, Osaka, which is also dubbed “The Beehive”. If you see the building’s floor information board on the ground floor, you’ll notice that the 5th, 6th and 7th floors are occupied by the Hanshin Expressway.
And if you didn’t look up and [...]

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