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One of the boldest pieces of architecture in Osaka, the Umeda Sky Building consists of two forty-storey towers joined near the top by a ring-shaped bridge that frames the open air, the whole forming what its designer, Hiroshi Hara, imagined as a gateway to the sky. Completed in 1993, the building was originally conceived as part of a far more ambitious cluster of four linked towers, of which only two were ever built, and its daring profile has made it a frequent fixture on lists of striking mode...