The hanging garden and the canyon of Namba Park in Osaka
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Sentinel has taken over the Namba Parks from the room of his Hotel, Swissotel Nankai Namba, while he was in Osaka in Japan. The Namba is a shopping mall and office location designed by architect Jon Jerde, who designed the first was where the baseball stadium in the city.
In his plans the architect has tried to recreate the atmosphere of an urban park, including the development of a garden on the roofs of buildings, follows the undulating path and different heights. If the terraces are parks, vertical planes of the buildings forming the canyon, creating an artificial environment in the city centre.
Here in addition to shops and offices, there are many restaurants, ranging from kitchen to eastern Europe (including Italian) almost all concentrated at 6 th floor of the centre and also a small amphitheater that hosts live shows.



