Category Archives: design
omotesando hills
tadao ando’s complicity in corporate cultural vandalism in central tokyo. tadao ando is largely admired in the west for his architecture of uncompromising and cool minimalism. but the other side to ando’s practice is an uncompromising and cool commercialism. omotesando hills is the harajuku development … Read More →
tokyo glass
in the aoyama area of tokyo comme des garçons store (flagship with aspirations to starship; the store was designed by the label’s chief designer and founder, fashion legend rei kawakubo) also the much photographed arresting design of herzog and du meuron’s prada store.
city
the city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, … Read More →
龍安寺（ryoan-ji)
うらやまし美しう成て散る紅葉 urayamashi utsukushuu natte chiru momiji how enviable becoming beautiful falling maple leaves
onsen: instant therapy in the freezing cold
pictures from kai aso, a modernist ryokan in kyushu’s kumamoto prefecture. blazing hot in summer, at over 1,000 metres the temperature on november mornings rarely exceeds 0°C. the water is scalding hot, at around 40° — 45°C. the effect is, well, let’s say bracing.
green
thames barrier park is a modernist park design which combines formal modernist geometric topiary with wildflower meadows. the hedged ‘wave’ feature, and dancing fountain, nod to the area’s dockland past. you can visit from the docklands light railway, floating pontoon station, next to london city … Read More →