ROAD THAT PASSES THROUGH BUILDING

There is a 16 story Gate Tower Building which is office building in Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan. And the special thing about this building is that a highway passes through the 5th-7th floors of this building. The highway is part of the Hanshin Expressway, a network (239.3 km) of expressways surrounding Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, Japan.

This building is nicknamed "beehive" referring to its appearance as a "bustling place". The elevator doesn't stop on floor 5th-7th, floor 4 being followed by floor 8. These floors consist of elevators, stairways, machinery and other things. The highway passes through the building as a bridge, held up by supports next to the building and have no contact with the building itself. The building has a double core construction, with a circular section and special care is taken by providing surrounded structure to the highway which makes the building free from noise and vibrations.

The property rights' holders refused to give up, and negotiated with the Hanshin Expressway corporation for about 5 years to reach the this solution.