Update: From arcspace.com, the people who brought you the Big Eye stadium, here is the Blur Building , a pavilion made of a fine mist of filtered water giving it an appearance of a cloud floating above a lake. This is not science fiction; it is now under construction for the Swiss 2002 Expo. After all, they really built the Big Eye stadium in Oita-ken.
Friday December 21, 2001
In my mind Oita-ken has always been an average, rural prefecture. I was shocked when I returned to Beppu-shi in 1996 and saw the new Beppu convention center (B-Con Plaza) sticking up like a giant...hmm?...words fail me. (The name is a pun on "beacon".)
I was even more dismayed when I recently saw some photos of the new Prefectural Sports Park in Oita-shi. But upon reading the architect's (Kisho Kurokawa) comments and seeing the plans and more photos, I've become a big fan of the Big Eye.
The Big Eye Stadium an impressive work of modern architecture. But where did they find room for it?
Wednesday May 29, 2002
Oh. This site answers that question. Click on the frame marked "access" (in katakana) for a map showing the location of the Big Eye stadium. (Also known as Oita SpoPark21.)
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens
February 21, 2002
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