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 […]
Koishikawa Korakuen (小石川後楽園) is a Japanese stroll garden in Bunkyo, Tokyo, near Tokyo Dome City. It is a short walk away from Iidabashi station. I visited at the start of […]
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 […]
Atami was another weekend trip I took mid December last year. The name, in Japanese as well as Chinese, translate directly to ‘hot sea/ocean’, referring to the abundance of natural hot spring […]
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 […]