Category Archives: tokyo
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 →
teppan-yaki izakaya
teppan-yaki-ya are usually associated with flashy upmarket slightly tacky pepper-mill twirling wisecracking steak chefs in london and new york epitomised by ‘benihana’. this place was a bit different. it’s warm and friendly, and the food has a distinctly japan meets the rest of the world … Read More →
tokyo 21_21
21_21 is a new design museum near roppongi, and tokyo ‘midtown’ new development. the building is designed to be dramatic whilst not overwhelming the surrounding park-scape. it is part-buried in the ground. what can be seen from the outside is essentially the roof. this, together … Read More →
death match in hell: ゴールデンがい、images from a lost world