jeansnow.net Cafe Pause PauseTalk M31

2008.05.07

Neojaponisme: Insulation

Insulation

Our latest “Ask an Architect” column with architect Keiji Ashizawa is now up over at Neojaponisme, this time covering the topic of insulation.

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2008.05.06

PingMag: Housing Complexes

Housing Complexes

PingMag interviews Ken Oyama about his passion for housing complexes. Oyama is behind the new photo book DANCHI NO KENKYU (AN ASSESSMENT OF HOUSING COMPLEXES).

2008.04.24

Aoyama Project by Jun Aoki

Aoyama Project

Without knowing it was by Jun Aoki, the first time I walked past the Aoyama Project building I did find a passing resemblance to Aoki’s Louis Vuitton store in Ginza (the arrangement of the windows). See more photos of the building at Design Hub. Via Dezain.net.

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2008.04.11

Latest Atelier Bow-Wow Projects

Sway House

Atelier Bow-Wow update their site with images of a few recent projects, including the Nora House, House Crane, and Sway House (pictured above). Via Dezain.net.

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2008.04.04

SANAA: Works 1998-2008

SANAA

VernissageTV presents a video look at the SANAA retrospective, “SANAA: Works 1998-2008,” currently running at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City (SANAA designed the museum’s new building). Via Dezain.net.

Comments (0) Category: Architecture • Events

2008.04.03

Paper Tea House and NE Apartments

Paper Tea House

Dezeen updates with two Japanese projects (and of course plenty of photos). First, Shigeru Ban’s Paper Tea House (pictured above), and then the NE Apartments (pictured below) by Akiyoshi Takagi, Yuji Nakae, and Hirofumi Ono.

NE Apartments

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2008.03.21

Kiyonobu Nakagame Architects

Designboom covers a few projects from Kiyonobu Nakagame Architects.

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2008.03.20

PingMag: Omotesando Architecture Part 2

Omotesando Architecture

PingMag continues its series on Omotesando architecture.

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2008.03.19

House in Shonandai

Dezeen posts a few photos of Kiyonobu Nakagame’s “House in Shonandai.”

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2008.03.17

Dwell in Tokyo

DWELL’s Audrey Tempelsman reports from Tokyo for the magazine’s blog. Via Dezain.net.

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2008.03.15

Nissan Grandrive

Dezeen posts plenty of photos of the Nissan Grandrive event hall in Yokosuka, by architect Akihito Fumita.

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2008.03.13

PingMag: Omotesando Architecture

Omotesando

PingMag takes us on an architectural tour of Omotesando, the first in a series.

Comments (4) Category: Architecture • Tokyo Walking

2008.03.11

Kochi Architects Studio

House KN

Designboom covers some of the works of Tokyo-based Kochi Architects Studio, including House KN, pictured above.

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2008.02.29

New Shibuya Station

The KEN-Platz site has a few photos of the construction work currently underway for the Tadao Ando-designed Shibuya station expansion. Via Dezain.net.

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2008.02.26

Uroko House in Shinkenchiku

Paul Baron’s “Uroko House” sleeping area, designed by Point Architects, makes an appearance in the current issue of SHINKENCHIKU magazine.

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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.

The Superfuture Superguides are a series of PDF travel guides to some of your favorites cities, updated monthly, and obsessively compiling the best places to shop, eat, and drink. The Tokyo guide is edited by Jean Snow.

Jean Snow is the design/culture editor at Neojaponisme, a web journal covering social and cultural aspects of Japan. Read the manifesto, by founder and chief editor W. David Marx, here.

PauseTalk is a regular series of events that take place at Cafe Pause on the first Monday of every month, with a start time of 20:00. The idea is to create a forum where Tokyo-based creatives can get together and discuss their own projects, as well as cultural currents of the city. The next edition happens May 12.

I write a monthly column covering Japanese product design for The Japan Times, called "On Design." It appears on the fourth Tuesday of every month, in both the print edition and online.

I contribute a weekly round-up covering the latest product and interior design happenings from Tokyo and Japan for MoCo Loco. It gets posted on Wednesdays, and you can find links to previous posts here.