The Sapporo building

Perhaps even more important, more exciting, is the fact that the same structural scheme goes through every floor, while the floors themselves are all different: Ten different floors one on top of the other, each specific to its circumstance as far as light, and view, and arrangements of apartments or shops is concerned — yet all held together by the repeating structural order that runs through the lot of them.
Thus the building is rigid in the definiteness of its geometrical conception, yet loose and subtle in the way the different floors are able to adapt to different conditions at the different levels.

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