Portfolio and Blog | Jeff Henig Photography» Architecture http://jeffhenig.com JEFF HENIG | Portfolio of Images by Adventure Travel Photographer Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:54:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Tokyo Tower http://jeffhenig.com/2010/06/tokyo-tower/ http://jeffhenig.com/2010/06/tokyo-tower/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:32:48 +0000 Jeff Henig http://jeffhenig.com/?p=846 Tokyo Tower continues to dominate the Tokyo skyline as the world’s tallest self-supporting steel tower, easily seen from the Imperial Palace and Roppongi. It boasts an antenna that broadcasts all that vital anime that Japanese watch on TV stations in Tokyo like NHK, TBS and Fuji TV. I like this image especially because of the way the foliage frames the tower.

]]> http://jeffhenig.com/2010/06/tokyo-tower/feed/ 0 Heart of Marunouchi: International Forum in Tokyo http://jeffhenig.com/2010/02/heart-of-marunouchi-the-tokyo-international-forum/ http://jeffhenig.com/2010/02/heart-of-marunouchi-the-tokyo-international-forum/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:20:06 +0000 Jeff Henig http://jeffhenig.com/?p=738 One of the coolest neighborhoods in Tokyo is Marunouchi,  It’s home of the Marunouchi Building, full of expensive shops and plentiful restaurants, and the Tokyo Rail Station. It’s also home of the Tokyo International Forum, Japan’s largest congress center, is situated on the boundary between Marunouchi, Tokyo’s central business area and the Ginza shopping and entertainment district. The Tokyo International Forum is one of the city’s many architectural highlights. The tracks of Japan Railways, the city’s principal system of transportation, bounds the eastern elevation with two of the most heavily used train stations, Tokyo and Yarakucho stations, located to the north and south. The International Forum includes two theaters, one among the largest in the world, over 6,000 square meters of exhibition space, several conference rooms, restaurants, shops and other amenities. The soaring Glass Hall serves as the main reception area for the Forum. By using laminated glass the architects were able to allow sunlight into the below ground Lobby area. Laminated glass was also used for several walkways and bridges giving them the appearance of flying across space.


The plaza at the center of the complex is one of the more interesting aspects of the TIF. It serves not only as the entry point for the complex, but as a public space where one can gain refuge from the impersonal hustle and bustle of the surrounding Marunouchi area.

A list of up coming events can be found here.   For example there is the Art Fair Tokyo which is scheduled in April and every first and third sunday of the month is the Oedo Antique Fair.

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