A Freeway Runs Through It

By Jill Harness in Architecture, Pictures, Travel on Dec 1, 2008 at 6:19 pm

This cool building in Osaka, Japan actually has a freeway going through it.

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  1. Ali S.
    Dec 1st, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    Gotta feel sorry for the folks who have an office cubicle next to the wall that has the freeway running next to it.

  2. richard
    Dec 1st, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    crazy! i wonder where the elevators and everything else that usually goes up the middle of a building are…

  3. Evilbeagle
    Dec 1st, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    I agree with Ali S. on this one. I would hate to work right next to the freeway like that unless there was some serious soundproofing going on. That said, it’s still pretty efficient and interesting!

  4. liphttam1
    Dec 1st, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    It would be cool to have one way glass so you could see all the cars driveing past!

  5. George
    Dec 1st, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    It raises the age old question; which game first, the building or the expressway? Pretty cool.

  6. Eugenio
    Dec 1st, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    Liphttam1:

    Yeah… but bulletproof glass, just in case :Þ

    (Would bulletproof cristal survive a car crash?)

  7. Jmanna
    Dec 1st, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    I seem to remember there being a building Boston with a street running through it too. Can’t remember the specifics though.

  8. GailW
    Dec 1st, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    There’s an apartment building sitting right on top of the Harlem River Drive here in NYC. The cars just run right under it.

  9. TwoDragons
    Dec 1st, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    There’s an office building in Austin (Texas, that is) that is built over the street. I always wondered how the folks there could be so calm with huge 18-wheelers rumbling mere inches underneath them!

    –TwoDragons

  10. red
    Dec 2nd, 2008 at 1:27 am

    That is totally like all the drawings of the future I used to look at as a kid.

  11. Janet Halsketten
    Dec 2nd, 2008 at 5:45 am

    This looks really strange, but anyhow futuristic. But I never will work in this building, because of the noize that cars and trucks will make. I believe I can’t concentrate if there is so much noize.

  12. chickmagnetstuff
    Dec 2nd, 2008 at 7:01 am

    looks like Gotham city, the building looks great.

  13. DOJ
    Dec 2nd, 2008 at 7:09 am

    The game jenga comes to mind

  14. Pol x
    Dec 2nd, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    I(N melbourne there is a HUGE casino in the city that a motorway runs through.

  15. renderanything
    Dec 3rd, 2008 at 11:20 am

    It just looks like an on/offramp to me. That wouldn’t be nearly as bad as say a four lane highway with large trucks constantly rumbling beneath your feet.

  16. JerseyPete
    Dec 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    It is an offramp. I drove on (through?) it when I was doing some work in Osaka. It is in the Umeda section of the city. Nearby, there are stores in a highway overpass.

  17. Melvin
    Dec 4th, 2008 at 12:04 am

    Calgary has the same thing happening where they just built a mall/office complex right over the existing street.

  18. Rocky Rook
    Dec 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    Star Wars: Attack of the Clones … looks just like it.

  19. raszz19
    Dec 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Leave it to Japan to come up with something like this…very innovative…


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