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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 18824754" data-attributes="member: 158020">-The 100 Stepped Garden- Awaji Yumebutai is a complex of buildings consisting of a conference  center, a hotel and a memorial in the city of Awaji located in an island  of the same name in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The complex was designed  by architect Tadao Ando and built on the side of a mountain from which  soil had been taken away in the early 1990s to cater to huge landfill  development in the Osaka Bay area, including the building of the Kansai International Airport. Tadao  Ando convinced the authorities to purchase the surrounding land and  turn it into a park. He wanted to turn the natural environment which was  once destroyed by expansion activities into a new place where people  could gather and interact. But before the park could be completed, a  violent earthquake shook Awaji island in 1995 and the region around Kobe  claiming the lives of more than 6,000 people. This forced the architect  the revise his construction plans and converted Awaji Yumebutai into a  memorial instead. The project now includes a hotel, a conference center,  a small amphitheater and restaurants, and plazas. One of the most striking features in the complex is the Hyakudanen or  “the 100 Stepped Garden” — a group of 100 flower beds in small square  gardens on an incline behind the hotel and arranged in grids spread over  several levels. There are exactly 100 square gardens that are decorated  with flowers throughout each of the 4 seasons serving as "a symbol to  calm the souls of those who lost their lives in the disaster". Flights  of stairs run all through the grid so that it’s possible to visit each  of the one hundred flower beds. The garden lies at the highest point of  the Yumebutai complex and is linked to the other parts of the project by  a 10 meters wide step-cascade of continuously flowing water, flanked by  stairs that follow the same arrangement and incline. A free-standing  elevator takes visitors to the top of the first large square of flower  beds where there is a spectacular viewing platform from where one can  have a 360-degree view of the entire Yumebutai complex. <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bN-SRAonTT8/Vcrog1O8xtI/AAAAAAABFXg/FbkIZP96K0E/awaji-yumebutai-garden-10%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ORhZ00Sl6DE/VcroiCaHiwI/AAAAAAABFXo/9cPbE-Jqy7E/awaji-yumebutai-garden-6%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FDzMvaQE_p0/VcrojYsF2tI/AAAAAAABFXw/hJiGqjcMJgU/awaji-yumebutai-garden-5%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QSTaNnr7VkA/VcrokjFuCHI/AAAAAAABFX4/T7qnGfjKtoU/awaji-yumebutai-garden-4%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PoC3aEed2s0/Vcrol4W26wI/AAAAAAABFYA/2lYUrTmYFmM/awaji-yumebutai-garden-1%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8sUw1qbBkWY/VcronWMUrwI/AAAAAAABFYI/uteQQ0AdvUY/awaji-yumebutai-garden-2%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LpXM2MqpkEs/Vcroogd2aVI/AAAAAAABFYQ/WC33lUhFRlo/awaji-yumebutai-garden-3%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SV7cAG7CcIo/VcroqGwYGYI/AAAAAAABFYY/7p2a01pF5u4/awaji-yumebutai-garden-7%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5Cv0Rw9qKcg/VcrorUUOS3I/AAAAAAABFYg/BT0qgWkp-_g/awaji-yumebutai-garden-8%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-efiRDFjNVCs/VcrosgY857I/AAAAAAABFYo/2jzg7G6vN1Y/awaji-yumebutai-garden-9%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-29SKOI5NijY/Vcrotrp8CHI/AAAAAAABFYw/Kkj_EFp5dnY/awaji-yumebutai-garden-11%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--a4_p9o2Dhw/Vcrovi-dDiI/AAAAAAABFY4/TbMrJwvT_8c/awaji-yumebutai-garden-12%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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