Category: Architecture
-
Living Small in the Big City
National Geographic has a video report up, “Tokyo: Living Small in the Big City,” featuring Atelier Tekuto‘s Penguin House. Via Dezain.net.
-
Neojaponisme: Insulation
Our latest “Ask an Architect” column with architect Keiji Ashizawa is now up over at Neojaponisme, this time covering the topic of insulation.
-
PingMag: 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).
-
Aoyama Project by Jun Aoki
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.
-
Latest Atelier Bow-Wow Projects
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. Update (16/11/19): The image is no longer available.
-
SANAA: Works 1998-2008
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.
-
Paper Tea House and NE Apartments
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.