journal
updated (with a bit of luck) weekly - most recent entries at the top
tokyo
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,
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
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
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.
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
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