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Category: Architecture
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A Naked Sony Building
A surprisingly bare Sony Building in Ginza — it’s rare to see it without anything on the front.
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Remember Le Corbusier at MAM
What you see here is a timelapse video shot by Michael Thorsby (PMKFA) last week (August 25) during the “Remember Le Corbusier” installation/atelier, presented as part of the current Le Corbusier retrospective at the Mori Art Museum, and produced by Tremors Were Forever (Assistant, Item Idem, and Loris Greaud).
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CNN Interviews Tadao Ando
The CNN site hosts a 3-part interview (dating back to April) with architect Tadao Ando regarding his work and its relation to nature, and also includes a tour of his Church of Light. Via Dezain.net.
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TABlog: Kurokawa on the Nakagin Capsule Building
TABlog posts an interview with Kisho Kurokawa about the Nakagin Capsule Building.
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Fuji Kindergarten
MONOCLE posts a narrated slideshow — by their Tokyo bureau chief, Fiona Wilson — on the Fuji kindergarten in Tachikawa, a suburb of Tokyo. It was designed by Takaharu and Yui Tezuka.
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Shigeru Ban’s Cardboard Bridge
From the high-tech Nicolas G. Hayek Center in Ginza, Shigeru Ban’s Carboard Bridge is made of, well, cardboard. Via Archinect.
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Architectural Office
I promise, this is the last photo I post today, taken while I was testing my new camera. This is an architectural office, located along Kanda River. They usually keep it open like this, making it look like a cafe. It was Craig Mod, of Chin Music Press, who showed me the place a few…
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Tama Art University Library
This Flickr account has quite a few photos of Toyo Ito-designed Tama Art University Library. Via Dezain.net.
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This Week on Tokyo Eye
This week’s episode of TOKYO EYE (#40) — it starts airing today — is the one which has me in the studio for the entire taping, and features the longest segment I’ve done yet, about 10 minutes long, on the creative use of space in Japanese architecture, featuring a few examples of what Atelier Bow-Wow…