Hiroyuki Wakabayashi

Hiroyuki Wakabayashi (若林 広幸, Wakabayashi Hiroyuki, born 1949) is a Japanese architect.[1]

One of his first major notable works was a pickle shop in his native Kyoto in 1990, followed by Humax Pavilion in Tokyo's Shibuya. His 1995 design for the Rapi:t express train that links Osaka's Namba Station with Kansai International Airport won the Blue Ribbon Award. He has also designed Keihan Electric Railway's Uji Station (1995) and the Mainichi Shimbun offices in Kyoto (1999).

His work is exhibited internationally, notably at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.[2]

  • Rapi:t
  • Uji Station
  • Humax Pavilion Shibuya Kōendōri

References
  1. Kestenbaum, Jackie; Gallery, Wallach Art; Centre canadien d'architecture (1991). Emerging Japanese architects of the 1990s. Columbia University Press. pp. 52–. ISBN 978-0-231-07501-5. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  2. "Emerging Japanese Architects of the 1990s". cca.qc.ca. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
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