Painting Ishigami – KAIT workshop
Junya Ishigami is one of the more recent Japanese architects I have come to know in the past year. I enjoyed reading through Another Scale of Architecture and remember how it didn’t […]
Junya Ishigami is one of the more recent Japanese architects I have come to know in the past year. I enjoyed reading through Another Scale of Architecture and remember how it didn’t […]
It’s not often that you get to enter a private house in a foreign country without personal contacts. Most of the time I will have a list of buildings I […]
Moriyama House (2005) by Ryue Nishizawa is essentially a collection of separate volumes that make up a ‘house’. Each volume accommodates different needs and function independent from each other. Like many contemporary Japanese houses, […]
Walked around Daikanyama one winter afternoon. So peaceful and laid back, with people walking their dogs and dining in cafes. If I lived in Tokyo (and had lots of $$$) […]
My family friend took me here on my first visit to Tokyo describing it as the most stylish Tsutaya in town. Sure enough it was. The big DVD, CD and […]
The house that use to fly. Use to. I was hoping to see the building looking like the above, but instead the only view I could see was what I […]
This little project by Atelier Bow-Wow is about a 5 minute walk from their house and office in Shinjuku. The other interns and I often pass this house on our […]
Never underestimate the power of music. I came across this comment on youtube from a viewer listening to Philip Glass’s violin concerto no.1, it is really an emotional piece. I […]
In the book Tokyo Metabolizing under ‘Changes in Urban Areas of Tokyo at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Architecture as Icon’ Koh Kitayama points to the Prada Aoyama store as […]
This is quite possibly (one of) my favourite project of all time. Ever since I discovered it’s existence I have been wanting to visit Japan JUST for this one project. […]