The Mikimoto Building.

"MIKIMOTO GINZA 2 Chuo Ward‚ Tokyo (2005)
The Mikimoto Ginza 2 store is a retail shop operated by renowned pearl jewelry manufacturer and retailer K. Mikimoto & Company. The building has irregularly shaped windows placed seemingly at random. The outer walls‚ made of steel plate-reinforced concrete some 20 centimeters thick‚ serve as the support structure for the 50-meter high‚ ninestorey building. Thanks to this integrated design‚ no support columns interrupt the interior space.
Mikimoto Ginza 2 was designed by Toyo Ito‚ who has won both international acclaim and-among other awards-a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from the 8th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Bienniale. In 2001‚ Ito crafted an innovative design for the Sendai Mediatheque‚ a large building vertically supported by 13 tubular columns. Since then he has worked on an entire series of experimental designs‚ including the Mikimoto store and the Tod's Omotesando building (2004)‚ which also features a support structure incorporated into its outer walls."

from: http://www.jijigaho.or.jp/app/0609/eng/sp07.html

Any search on the internet could have turned up info on this building. Are Neatorama writers so lame that they can't figure that out?

http://my.opera.com/mildz/blog/show.dml/172154

I was trying to figure out what the Honeyee website wrote on this building.

It's called "Viewer Participation", Matt. Of course, any sort of cooperative activity is probably foreign to you, unless it involved nudity...

--TwoDragons

I walk by this building on my way to work everyday, its only one of dozens of really unique buldings in the Ginza district.

It's an easy way to spy on smb's activity :)

Simon, good thing Neatorama follows each person's name with "Says" ... otherwise I wouldn't have believed a word you said. ;)

many cool photos on google/flickr

interesting from different perspectives

It's the swiss cheese building!

I'd have to agree with Matt on this one, since the name of the building is in the picture.

Cheap shot, Denita.

It's a strange building. Shows how the designers cared more about the look of the building than the condition of the people inside - not enough window space.

I agree with ted. If only we had some sort of magical device which would convert electric energy into light, thus artificially illuminating nearby objects!

Forgive me, I'm feeling punchy today, Ted. I'll probably get over it in about 24 hours, once the work-stress-related urge to violently beat the sh*t out of human beings not related to me by birth or marriage starts to fade... ;-)

BTW *SNORT!* @ pld! Thanks, I needed that...

--TwoDragons