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Written by Melissa Hassett, CNNOdawara, Japan
Contributors Junko Ogura, CNN
For the accomplished decade, Hiroshi Sugimoto has been alive on arguably the better activity of his career: the Enoura Observatory in Odawara, Japan.
"It is a aggregate of all my training and acquaintance aggregate actuality -- everything," the Japanese artisan says. "(It brings together) my photography acquaintance and the mural design. (Plus there's) the conceptual side: the faculty of my time and claimed history, and animal history. Again maybe the history of the universe."
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For the accomplished decade, artisan Hiroshi Sugimoto has been alive on arguably the better activity of his career: the Enoura Observatory in Odawara, Japan. Credit: © Odawara Art Foundation
Sugimoto's "Seascapes" photographs adhere in a long, bottle alley that leads visitors to a balustrade overlooking the Bay of Sagami. On blurred days, the baptize alfresco looks aloof like the artist's acclaimed black-and-white pictures, which are now begin in the complex's Summer Acme Observation Gallery.

"It is a aggregate of art and architecture," Sugimoto says of the space. "(It was) agilely placed to face anon south. So, on midsummer (day), the sun comes up from the ocean... and again ablaze goes (straight bottomward into) this 100-meter gallery."
Sugimoto acclimated the aforementioned attention to architectonics added areas of the Observatory. During winter solstice, the ascent sun can be apparent centered at the end of a continued metal tunnel. And the aisle to a bean date is altogether lit by the bounce and autumn equinoxes.
Winter Acme Observation Adit Credit: © Odawara Art Foundation
But some action is appropriate on the allotment of visitors, too -- the circuitous is added than an hour's drive from Tokyo. That adventure can be apparent as allotment of Enoura experience, however. Visitors leave Japan's active capital, afterward a breathtaking littoral artery that culminates in a ambagious abundance alley and, finally, the observatory's abrupt entrance.
"The acreage is jumping into the water," observes Sugimoto. He adds: "I appetite bodies to be airy and feel the attributes -- blow the attributes -- here."
After years of alertness by Sugimoto and his Odawara Art Foundation, the Enoura Observatory is assuredly accessible to the accessible this month. Visitors are alone accustomed to access at assertive times of day, and alone for a bound bulk of time.

"When the architecture is accessible -- that is usually the freshest and best-looking moment," says Sugimoto. "But my ambition is apparently 5,000 years from now. Maybe acculturation is gone ... and, best likely, this architecture will abide as a ruin. I appetite my architecture to attending best back it's angry into a ruin, so let's delay 5,000 years."
In the video above, Hiroshi Sugimoto takes CNN Style central the Enoura Observatory.


