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Category: Architecture
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This Week on Tokyo Eye
This week’s episode of TOKYO EYE (#40) — it starts airing today — is the one which has me in the studio for the entire taping, and features the longest segment I’ve done yet, about 10 minutes long, on the creative use of space in Japanese architecture, featuring a few examples of what Atelier Bow-Wow…
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Tokyo Sewers
A reader sent in this link to a great gallery of shots from Tokyo’s sewage system.
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It Glows Green
Last week while in some backstreets of Harajuku (towards the Bape Cafe), I was struck by these glowing green lights on theses panels hiding some construction work.
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New Bic Camera
The Bic Camera store you see in the back — that’s actually their flagship store, located here in Ikebukuro — has just undergone major renovations, finally revealing this beautiful white exterior (you can’t see it here, but there are brand names written on white all over the building).
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Nicolas G. Hayek Center
The other day I passed by Swatch Group Japan‘s new Nicolas G. Hayek Center in Ginza, with a design headed by Shigeru Ban. I was in a hurry, so only had time to snap a few shots. The elevators — each one also acts as a showroom, and connects to one of the 7 stores…
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Swatch Group Japan’s Nicolas G. Hayek Center
I’m surprised I missed this — I was even in Ginza yesterday for one of my gallery tours — but Swatch Group Japan’s Nicolas G. Hayek Center (7-9-18 Ginza), designed by Shigeru Ban, is now open. The photo above comes from this TimeZone post, which includes a few more shots of the building.