YOSHIMOTO BUILDING (OSAKA HILTON -- THE HILTON PLAZA), Osaka, Japan.

This building was built in 1986 by Takenaka Komuten Co., Ltd., and is
located in Osaka's Kita ward directly in front of Osaka Station.  It 
is comprised of a 553 guest room hotel, a retail block, and a 300 car 
parking lot.  Its most distinctive form is the curved glass atrium 
situated between the hotel tower and the shopping section.  This is 
another example of the sleek, high-tech, modern architecture often 
found in Japan.  In this graphic, the curvature of the atrium was 
increased so that the building would fit on a 3x3 tile base.  On the 
actual building, the arc is not as great and the shopping section 
extends outward from the building at a more obtuse angle.

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Created by Lee Sojot.
