Nexus Momochi M Building

Momochi-hama, Japan

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

Nexus Momochi M is a postmodern apartment building completed in 1989 in Momochi-hama, Fukuoka, Japan, designed by American architect Michael Graves. Constructed of reinforced concrete, the building exemplifies Graves's distinctive postmodern approach, which departed from the severity of modernism through expressive forms and applied ornament. The Nexus Momochi project, located in the newly developed waterfront district of Sawara ward, represents one of Graves's notable international commissions and reflects the architect's engagement with residential design during the height of postmodern architecture in the late 1980s.