Airport Designer-Designed Birdhouses

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Renzo Piano

Norman Foster

Yoshihiko Sano(Japan)

At the beginning of my work with the birdhouse concept, I was first confronted with the question of 'what is the "house", the pivot if life, to living things?' The answers to this question were wide and varied indeed-a house is 'the place that gently envelopes us', 'that from which, at some time, we depart on our travels', and sometimes 'that which stimulates us to greater things', In summary, it can be said that the house is a concept of great flexibility.
The work for the creation of the Link progressed in consultation with Abe Kozo. At times we were the eye of the bird, at times we walked the curves of the Link. We sometimes were puzzled by alienation of human designs and the variations of nature and so tConversation became completed like the Link, and yet like the Link is continually open and in movement.

Born in 1954 in Kanagawa Prefecture. Studied at the department of architecture, School of engineering, Tokyo College of Science and graduated with a masters degree. Joined design division of the Takenaka Engineering, Osaka headIn In airport facilities, worked on the New Chitose Airport.

RFR/Jean-Francis Blassel+Henry Bardsley+Kieran Rice+Bernard Vaudeville

Kazunori Sameshima

Kozo Abe(Japan)

Born 1939 in Shizuoka, Japan. Graduated from Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University. Joined the firm of Ponti Fernarolli Rosetti in Milan in 1972. In 1977, founded Kozo Abe Design Firm. From 1987 to present, serve as lecturer of Industrial Design, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University.

Nicholas T. Grimshaw

Curtis W. Fentress+J.H.Bradburn

Koichi Ando(Japan)

Yoshihiko Sano+Kozo Abe+Koichi Ando

1954 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Graduated from Yokosuka High School in Aichi Prefecture and joined Ando Kogyo. Spent 18 months in New York and Europe from 1982. Upon returning to Japan, he established the Ando Art Gallery.

Kisho Kurokawa