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Category: Architecture

  • Omotesando Hills

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    Last week I promised some shots of the Tadao Ando-designed Omotesando Hills development, and so here they are. Not everyone is crazy about this soon-to-be Tokyo landmark.

  • Xbox Lounge

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    A couple of pics of the soon-to-be-opened (this week) Xbox Lounge in Aoyama. Peeking inside, nothing was really set up yet (as of last Monday).

  • Pecha Kucha Night Vol. 27

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    I went to my first Pecha Kucha Night at SuperDeluxe earlier tonight, and had a great time. I’ve never attended because I only get back home around 9 on Wednesdays, and with the event always starting at 7:30-8, I never figured it was worth going. But I had to meet some people about an article,…

  • The Omotesando Hills Debate Continues

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    The Omotesando Hills debate continues with Momus throwing in his 2 cents. Me? I’m definitely with Momus on this one.

  • The Omotesando Eye Sore

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    METROPOLIS founder Mark Devlin does not dig Ando’s Omotesando development at all. But Archinect, get your facts straight. Newspaper? The publisher of the English language newspaper Japan Today criticizes Tadao Ando’s building for Mori in Omotesando.

  • Mystery Omotesando Building

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    A reader sends me word that Esquisse Omotesando is going to be torn down, and replaced in 2007 by the building pictured above. Anyone know who (architect) is behind the project? This press release (in Japanese) only mentions that it’s a Dutch architectural firm. Update: According to this article, the firm involved is MVRDV.

  • Praemium Imperiale

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    This year’s Praemium Imperiale laureates include Issey Miyake (sculpture) and Yoshio Taniguchi (architecture). Link via Dezain.net. Update: Fashion guru Martin Webb as a post regarding Miyake’s win here.

  • Bow-Wow Wan-Wan

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    Today, Momus covers one of his — and mine as well — favorite architects, the duo of Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima, who together form the unit Atelier Bow-Wow. It just so happens that I also mention them in my latest Tokyo Q design column, which should be up tomorrow.