Toho Gakuen Shortlisted For RIBA International Prize
The Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo designed by Nikken Sekkei has recently been shortlisted alongside three other buildings in the running for the RIBA International Prize awarded every two years to the most inspirational and significant new buildings across the globe. A new virtuoso music school designed to visually connect rather than isolate practising musicians, this new open-plan campus replaced an earlier building on the site, which had a conventional arrangement of cellular practice rooms along a corridor with no natural light. Conversely, this virtuoso piece of architecture…