Category: Architecture
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Museums by Yoshio Taniguchi
You just know I’m going to be seeing this show! We are proud to present this one-person show of architect Yoshio Taniguchi, one of today’s most recognized architects. Taniguchi is famous for his expansion design for the newly re-opened Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. His works are characterized by simple modernist spaces…
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Yurakucho Sky
A nice blue sky over Yurakucho. You can slightly see the roofs of the Muji store, as well as the Tokyo International Forum.
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GA Houses
I saw this, GA HOUSES PROJECT 2005, at Junkudo yesterday, and was definitely tempted to pick it up. It looks at various projects, featuring Tadao Ando, Jun Aoki, Atelier Bow-Wow, among others. Bonus: the content is presented in a bilingual format.
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New at Miru-Kenchiku
Miru-Kenchiku has 3 new galleries covering some of the big-name fashion brand boutiques in Ginza: Dior, Lanvin, and Louis Vuitton. Link via Dezain.net.
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Kenzo Tange
The architect Kenzo Tange died today. The picture above, by Lil, is of one of his designs, the United Nations University in Aoyama.
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Docomomo_100 Japan
The Docomomo 100 in Japan was featured in the September 2004 issue of CASA BRUTUS (54), which happened to be a bilingual issue. Docomomo was established in 1988 in Holland as an “international working party for document and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement” (from the Website). This event introduces in…
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KDDI Designing Studio
KDDI (the company behind mobile phone provider AU) will be launching the KDDI Designing Studio in Harajuku on March 4, and this will be accompanied by Gas sponsored special events featuring the design collection Tomato. “YOU-ME-WHO?” installation, which will start March 4 (until March 28) A talk session with members of Tomato, on March 6…
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Domus on Ito Toyo
Domus has an article up on designer Ito Toyo (Tod’s Omotesando building). Free registration required.