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Category: Architecture

  • SD Review 2005

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    Get your architecture groove on! Reflecting the thinking process of the architects, drawings and models reveal how these creators materialize their concepts. SD Review 2005 presents such works of the best of the new generation, as selected by the jury of the annual design competition. (TAB) It’s happening at Hillside Terrace until October 2.

  • Aomori Museum of Art

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    Go here, and scroll down to the first post with pics to see some images of the Jun Aoki-designed Aomori Museum of Art. Link via Dezain.net.

  • The Book of Pallalink

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    Last year I talked about THE BOOK OF PALLALINK, featuring symmetrical photography/design by architect Kazuhiko Kawahara, and this past weekend I finally got my hands on a copy. As expected, it’s a stunning piece of work, and I can’t stop leafing through it. I don’t know if there are any copies left (it was limited…

  • Lunch at Stair

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    Last week I finally had a chance to check out the Masamichi Katayama-designed Stair in Aoyama. I was having lunch there (in the great company of Nicole and Charlie) and, well, I’ll just say that daylight isn’t so kind to the space. I can see it really having a cool/stylish atmosphere at night (like in…

  • Takashi Sugimoto

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    Earlier tonight there was a fascinating profile on TV covering interior designer Takashi Sugimoto (the show aired at 22:00 on TV Tokyo). We were taken on a tour of some of his works — like the stunning Park Hyatt in Seoul — followed by a look at the house he bought and modestly renovated in…

  • Fujiya

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    In Ginza, late in the afternoon on Monday. It’s the huge intersection near the Sony Building.

  • Schoolyard

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    This is the school where Yuko went to vote last Sunday. It’s just a few minutes from where we live.

  • Shibuya Common

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    I don’t have time to read the interview (from PING magazine) or examine the website yet, but what Toru Watanabe is doing with his Shibuya Common projects looks very interesting. I’ll report on it later (I’m posting this as a reminder). Toru Watanabe has gotten busy in order to offer an unrequested alternative plan from…