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								  |  | Tak Building (Toyota Auto) 
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Buildings for offices and professional practises Offices |  |   
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        | BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |  |  |  |  |  |   
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                                    | Giovanni Leoni (ed.), David Chipperfield, Federico Motta editore, Milano 2006, pp. 60-69 |  
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                                    | Brian Hatton, "L'architettura nelle condizioni del sito/Site-Specific Architecture", Lotus international 102, settembre/september 1999 [Il moderno per immagini/The Modern through Images], pp. 97 (92-98) |  
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                                    | Pierluigi Nicolin, "Rappresentare la costruzione/Representing Building", Lotus international 78, ottobre/october 1993, [Rappresentare la costruzione/Representing Building], pp. 131 (114-131) |  |  
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                                    | Toyota Auto Kyoto Corporation |  |   
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                                    | Whitby Bird Hanawa Structural engineers
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                                    | David Chipperfield Architects |  |  
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                                    | Jorge Carvalho, Jan Coghlan, Jamie Fobert, Spencer Fung, Michael Greville, Naoko Kawamura, Cecilia Lau, Haruo Morishima, Ko Nakatani, Toshiki Wakisaka, Sarah Wong |  |  
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                                    | Makoto Nozawa + GETT: Toshiaki Kamo, Makoto Nozawa |  |  
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                                    | Whitby Bird: Mark Phillip, Ian Scot Hanawa Structural engineers: Noriaki Hanawa
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                                    | Nakajima Setsubi Co., Ltd: Nakajima Setsubi |  |  
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                                    | Fujita Komuten: Noboru Mizuguchi |  |   
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