Awaji Yumebutai is a complex comprising a conference center, hotel in Awaji, Hyōgo, Japan скачать в хорошем качестве

Awaji Yumebutai is a complex comprising a conference center, hotel in Awaji, Hyōgo, Japan

The Awaji Yumebutai 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, who had begun planning for the project prior to the earthquake. The hotel is operated as the Westin Awaji Island Resort. Yumebutai literally means "Dream Stage", from yume and butai, "performance stage. Metaphorically "a place in which to dream", the name refers to the aim of restoring the ecology of the island, whose soil had been partly removed for land reclamation in Osaka. One of the most distinctive features in the complex is the Hyakudanen, 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.