Side elevation of facade with glazing and view through. Miu Miu Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Architect: Herzog & de Meuron, 2015.

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Miu Miu is led by Italian designer Miuccia Prada, who commissioned Herzog & de Meuron to create their seminal Tokyo Prada store on the other side of the same road in 2000. As well as wanting to create a building that would contrast with the crystalline glass structure of the Prada store, the architects' design had to comply with zoning regulations that limited the height of the building. The two-storey opaque structure includes a steel facade that angles away from the glass glazing on the front of the building "as if the volume had been sliced open with a big knife".

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