Tag 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 →
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 ikebukuro mono
not the most glamourous part of tokyo, with a reputation for sleaze and bad taste, it nevertheless boasts one of tokyo’s biggest railway stations, two of the biggest department stores in the world, and serves the dormitory prefecture of saitama. nevertheless, this is where your … Read More →
edo hakubutsukan
pictures taken around the tokyo edo museum at ryogoku designed by architect kiyonori kikutake. it is an extraordinary building, erected at the height of the japanese bubble economy, at a cost of lord knows how many million yen. the interior, while initially impressive with its reconstruction … Read More →
the roppongi cow and escalators
this is just a test really please don’t take this post as an indicator of seriousness
death match in hell: ゴールデンがい、images from a lost world