Explore our collection of gorgeous products celebrating Hiroshi Hara’s Umeda Sky Building (completed in 1993), a titanic monument to the delirious ambition of Japan’s Bubble Era. Recognized globally as a masterpiece of High-Tech architecture, this structure seems less like a building and more like a fragment of a futuristic metropolis levitating over Osaka.

Originally envisioned as a sprawling "Sky City" of four interlinked skyscrapers, this twin-towered colossus is crowned by the "Floating Garden Observatory" (Kuchu Teien). Constructed using the revolutionary "Lift-Up" method, this gravity-defying bridge is pierced by a crater-like void that Hara famously described as the vestige left behind by a departed spaceship.

Ascending to this celestial platform involves riding glass escalators that slice through the open air, suspending visitors in a vertigo-inducing journey through the heavens. With a shimmering curtain wall that reflects the shifting clouds and a silhouette that rivals the mecha-landscapes of Gundam or Akira, the Umeda Sky Building is a masterpiece of technological fantasy. Our collection captures the giddy energy of this sci-fi icon, celebrating a moment in time when the impossible was simply the next project to be built.

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