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Artist:

Takenobu Igarashi

Title:

Hibiki, Echo

Year:
1986
Adress:
Suntory Hall
Website:
www.takenobuigarashi.jp
Hibiki
There is a beautiful expression in Japanese: 'kokoro ni hibiku' meaning 'resounding in the heart'.
'Hibiki' was the concept behind the concert hall built by Suntory. The aim was to build a concert hall for classical music with the best acoustics, or 'hibiki'.
I decided to design the symbol based on the Kanji-character of the word. Moreover, I designed several three-dimensional variations of the two-dimensional logo as sculptures to be placed inside and outside the hall.

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Located at Karajan Place, this combination of half-circles sculpture expresses the sound of echo. Of course, HIBIKI means the echo in Japanese.