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Toshi Hirubusawa is the designer of Akira Towers. An "Architectural Mastermind", (Time Magazine, 2001) whose approach to architecture can be categorized as critical religion. Toshi has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer, prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete, and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship, which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism. In 1999, he established the firm Toshi Hirubusawa Architects & Associates, with renowned photographer Paul Hiryoo-San. In 2001,Toshi won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the highest distinction in the field of architecture. He donated the $150,000 prize money to the orphans of the 1998 Kobe earthquake. He considers Akira Towers his crowning achievement. |
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