Heatherwick Studio has released images of its first project to be built in Japan, an 8ha redevelopment in Tokyo inspired by the idea of a giant pergola.

The £4.5bn scheme, for developer Mori Building Company, will also contain three towers by Pelli Clarke Pelli and retail designed by Sou Fujimoto.

Other architects appointed to the Toranomon-Azabudai project include Canadians Yabu Pushelberg, Italy’s Marco Costanzi and Singapore’s Soo Chan. All the architects were commissioned independently.

The project, which is roughly the size of the Rockefeller Centre in New York, broke ground this month and is due to complete in 2023.

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