monocula http://kenedwards.org.uk/image photographs. and a few words Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:12:16 +0000 en hourly 1 road signs http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/09/03/roads/ http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/09/03/roads/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:30:08 +0000 ken edwards http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/?p=2146 Tweet this!]]>


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]]> http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/09/03/roads/feed/ 0 omotesando hills http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/09/03/omotesando-hills/ http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/09/03/omotesando-hills/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:08:39 +0000 ken edwards http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/?p=2126 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 …]]>


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 which swept away one of the few remaining examples of tokyo’s pre-war embrace of architectural modernism; the bauhaus–inspired dōjunkai Aoyama Apartments, which had been built in 1927 after the 1923 kantō earthquake.

these apartments, although in sore need of restoration, could, with a will, have been preserved. what has replaced them is not the ando of the pared down cold un-dressed concrete of his more well-known works, but a monument to modern consumerism — since the initial excitement of the opening, the building now looks like any of the other sanitised anonymous cathedral-like shooping malls which have sprung up all over tokyo, thanks to the mori corporation and their vision of the urban garden.

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]]> http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/22/zen-again/feed/ 0 紅葉 — モミジ http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/22/%e7%b4%85%e8%91%89-%e3%83%a2%e3%83%9f%e3%82%b8/ http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/22/%e7%b4%85%e8%91%89-%e3%83%a2%e3%83%9f%e3%82%b8/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:39:59 +0000 ken edwards http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/?p=2054


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

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]]> http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/22/%e7%b4%85%e8%91%89-%e3%83%a2%e3%83%9f%e3%82%b8/feed/ 0 more zen, less zen http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/21/more-zen-less-zen/ http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/21/more-zen-less-zen/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:16:14 +0000 ken edwards http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/?p=2031 what is the colour of wind? Tweet this!]]>


what is the colour of wind?

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]]> http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/21/more-zen-less-zen/feed/ 0 down by the canal in clerkenwell http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/21/down-by-the-canal-in-clerkenwell/ http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/21/down-by-the-canal-in-clerkenwell/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:17:28 +0000 ken edwards http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/?p=2012 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 …]]>


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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]]> http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/21/down-by-the-canal-in-clerkenwell/feed/ 0 tokyo glass http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/15/tokyo-glass/ http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/15/tokyo-glass/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:02:16 +0000 ken edwards http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/?p=1991 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 …]]>


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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]]> http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/13/blue-sky-thinking/feed/ 0 paris by polaroid http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/07/1939/ http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/07/1939/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:20:30 +0000 ken edwards http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/?p=1939 pre-digital, armed only with my polaroid camera — i’m tempted to revive it. you will find here: picasso,brancusi,  jean paul sartre, simone de beauvoir, jean …]]>


pre-digital, armed only with my polaroid camera — i’m tempted to revive it. you will find here: picasso,brancusi,  jean paul sartre, simone de beauvoir, jean seberg, henri langlois, and hotel du nord, star of the eponymous film

 

 

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]]> http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/08/07/1939/feed/ 0 granada http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/07/29/granada/ http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/2010/07/29/granada/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:13:05 +0000 ken edwards http://kenedwards.org.uk/image/?p=1911 the alhambra palace hotel. could have been designed by cecil b. de mille. maybe it was. Tweet this!]]>


the alhambra palace hotel. could have been designed by cecil b. de mille. maybe it was. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Tweet this!Tweet this!

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