The Awaji Yumebutai (淡路夢舞台) is a complex comprising a conference center, hotel and memorial in Awaji, Hyōgo, Japan, built near the epicenter of the 1995 Great Hanshin Awaji earthquake. It was designed by Tadao Ando, [1] [2] who had begun planning for the project (as a park) prior to the earthquake. [3] The hotel is operated as the Westin Awaji Island Resort .
Yumebutai (夢舞台) literally means "Dream Stage", [4] from yume ( 夢, "dream") and butai ( 舞台, "performance stage, setting"). Metaphorically "a place in which to dream", [5] the name refers to the aim of restoring the ecology of the island, [6] whose soil had been partly removed for land reclamation in Osaka. [3]
One of the most distinctive features in the complex is the Hyakudanen (百段苑, "hundred stepped gardens"), a group of 100 flower beds (small square gardens) on an incline, arranged in grids spread over several levels. The "hundred" refers to the number of mini-gardens and not the steps, as there are 1,575 steps and 235 flights. [3]
[...] meaning 'place of dreams' or 'place in which to dream' - is the name given by Tadao Ando to his latest, and largest, work.
The dream here is about the ecological restoration of a part of the isle of Awaji [..]
34°33′45″N 135°00′37″E / 34.562628°N 135.010185°E
The Awaji Yumebutai (淡路夢舞台) is a complex comprising a conference center, hotel and memorial in Awaji, Hyōgo, Japan, built near the epicenter of the 1995 Great Hanshin Awaji earthquake. It was designed by Tadao Ando, [1] [2] who had begun planning for the project (as a park) prior to the earthquake. [3] The hotel is operated as the Westin Awaji Island Resort .
Yumebutai (夢舞台) literally means "Dream Stage", [4] from yume ( 夢, "dream") and butai ( 舞台, "performance stage, setting"). Metaphorically "a place in which to dream", [5] the name refers to the aim of restoring the ecology of the island, [6] whose soil had been partly removed for land reclamation in Osaka. [3]
One of the most distinctive features in the complex is the Hyakudanen (百段苑, "hundred stepped gardens"), a group of 100 flower beds (small square gardens) on an incline, arranged in grids spread over several levels. The "hundred" refers to the number of mini-gardens and not the steps, as there are 1,575 steps and 235 flights. [3]
[...] meaning 'place of dreams' or 'place in which to dream' - is the name given by Tadao Ando to his latest, and largest, work.
The dream here is about the ecological restoration of a part of the isle of Awaji [..]
34°33′45″N 135°00′37″E / 34.562628°N 135.010185°E