AZABUDAI HILLSMori's "Modern Urban Village" wraps Japan's tallest tower in a green-carpeted mixed-use district that has visibly reshaped central Tokyo. Heatherwick Studio's landscape, a serious art and dining program, and Teamlab Borderless together make the development a destination in its own right rather than another office complex.
Roppongi HillsMori Building's 2003 Roppongi Hills was the prototype for Tokyo's mixed-use vertical city — Mori Tower, the Mori Art Museum, the Grand Hyatt, and a public art program that set the bar for every subsequent Hills development.
Omotesando HillsTadao Ando's 2006 building—a spiralling concrete canyon of retail galleries around a central void crossed by gentle ramps—replaced the beloved Dojunkai apartments with a consumer programme that has the gravity of a museum, making it Omotesando's most architecturally consequential shopping destination.