Umeda: Interior City of Light — After the Afternoon of Beethoven’s Ninth Aquarium × Glassworks “Opening”｜Architecture of Civilization Permanent Archive Edition
February 23, 2026.
After attending the 2:00 PM performance of Beethoven’s Ninth by the Osaka Philharmonic at Symphony Hall, I filmed the interiors of Umeda’s most advanced modern buildings.
Light, structure, and stillness.
Saint-Saëns’ Aquarium flows with transparent resonance.
Philip Glass’ Glassworks: Opening unfolds like modern architecture in sound.
The human will proclaimed in Beethoven’s Ninth crystallizes here as light within glass and steel.
Duration: 10:39. A permanent archive of civilization’s interior.