DAIKANYAMA T-SITE

This guide to Daikanyama T-Site in Tokyo follows the design competition Tsutaya ran for a flagship bookstore built around one condition: not a single mature tree on the site could come down. It traces how the winning firm, Klein Dytham, split the store into three linked pavilions around an open walkway, and the hidden pattern worked into the lattice walls, glass and floor plan throughout the complex. Listen for how fast the whole thing went up, racing the disruption of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.