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Category: Architecture
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A Naked Sony Building
A surprisingly bare Sony Building in Ginza — it’s rare to see it without anything on the front.
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Remember Le Corbusier at MAM
What you see here is a timelapse video shot by Michael Thorsby (PMKFA) last week (August 25) during the “Remember Le Corbusier” installation/atelier, presented as part of the current Le Corbusier retrospective at the Mori Art Museum, and produced by Tremors Were Forever (Assistant, Item Idem, and Loris Greaud).
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CNN Interviews Tadao Ando
The CNN site hosts a 3-part interview (dating back to April) with architect Tadao Ando regarding his work and its relation to nature, and also includes a tour of his Church of Light. Via Dezain.net.
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TABlog: Kurokawa on the Nakagin Capsule Building
TABlog posts an interview with Kisho Kurokawa about the Nakagin Capsule Building.
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Fuji Kindergarten
MONOCLE posts a narrated slideshow — by their Tokyo bureau chief, Fiona Wilson — on the Fuji kindergarten in Tachikawa, a suburb of Tokyo. It was designed by Takaharu and Yui Tezuka.
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Shigeru Ban’s Cardboard Bridge
From the high-tech Nicolas G. Hayek Center in Ginza, Shigeru Ban’s Carboard Bridge is made of, well, cardboard. Via Archinect.
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Architectural Office
I promise, this is the last photo I post today, taken while I was testing my new camera. This is an architectural office, located along Kanda River. They usually keep it open like this, making it look like a cafe. It was Craig Mod, of Chin Music Press, who showed me the place a few…
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Tama Art University Library
This Flickr account has quite a few photos of Toyo Ito-designed Tama Art University Library. Via Dezain.net.