Omotesando Hills in Aoyama, Tokyo, was designed by Tadao Ando, and the article names Mori Building as developer. It was built in 2005, though the exact opening date and the start of work are not stated. The article gives no style or materials. The complex covers a 250-meter (820-foot) stretch of Omotesandō and cost $330 million.
It holds more than 130 shops and 38 apartments. A small reconstructed section of the earlier Dōjunkai Aoyama Apartments stands in the southeast part of the complex.
The Dōjunkai Aoyama Apartments, built in 1927 and Bauhaus-inspired, were demolished for the project, which raised questions about preserving historic buildings. Construction was controversial, and some landowners reportedly resisted Ando as architect, fearing his buildings were too fashionable for the area. The article gives no hours.
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