Category Archives: places

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london

24 Oct Filed under england, london, places. No comments.
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down in hoxton

11 Sep Filed under england, london, places. No comments.
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road signs

3 Sep Filed under architecture, japan, places, tokyo, urban. No comments.
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omotesando hills

3 Sep Filed under architecture, design, japan, tokyo. No comments.

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 →

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zen again

22 Aug Filed under japan, kyoto, places. No comments.
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紅葉 — モミジ

22 Aug Filed under doesn't fit anywhere else, japan, kyoto, places. 2 Comments.

momiji are japan­ese maple trees. these pic­tures were made in kyoto in 2009

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more zen, less zen

21 Aug Filed under japan, kyoto. No comments.

what is the colour of wind?

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down by the canal in clerkenwell

21 Aug Filed under england, london, places. No comments.

all the per­for­mances of human art, at which we look with praise or won­der, are instances of the resist­less force of per­se­ver­ance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyra­mid, and that dis­tant coun­tries are united with canals. samuel john­son

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tokyo glass

15 Aug Filed under architecture, design, japan, places, tokyo. No comments.

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.

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blue sky thinking

13 Aug Filed under bali, places, seascape. No comments.