tokyo, shibuya station

The station lies beyond the eye-shaped panels, sandwiched vertically between lanes of traffic. I took this picture from a raised pedestrin walkway that negotiates the expanse of the intersection's distended geometry. The station's vaulted roofs are about as unified and monumental as its architecture gets, compressed and interpenetrated as it is by the city around it. This not by the miraculous machinations of urban dynamics--train stations are often private developments and coupled with department stores at their inception. Commerce, packaged to maximum efficiency, dominates transit space.