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Skywatching at James Turrell’s House of Light [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 8:54 AM, August 27th, 2010 0 comments

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Yuko Kamei marrying bodies, spaces, movement and stills  [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 5:58 PM, August 9th, 2010 0 comments

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Seven installations by contemporary Japanese architects [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 5:23 PM, July 13th, 2010 0 comments

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Hiroshi Naito’s architecture of light [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 4:01 PM, July 13th, 2010 1 comment

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When Yu Ogata and Ichiro Ogata Ono are not busy building buildings they photograph buildings others have built [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:37 AM, July 13th, 2010 0 comments

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A new photography museum designed by Hiroshi Sugimoto at the foothills of Mt Fuji [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 9:40 AM, July 1st, 2010 0 comments

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Kisho Kurokawa’s 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower, the world’s first large-scale modular building, is still standing – but only thanks to Japan’s current financial malaise [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 11:20 PM, April 24th, 2010 1 comment

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Out of consideration for the pristine landscape of Naoshima, Tadao Ando completely submerged his building for the Chichu Museum [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 1:08 PM, April 16th, 2010 2 comments

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Shinro Ohtake’s psychedelic sentō aims to reinvigorate the culture of public bathing and connect Naoshima’s local residents with the island’s ever increasing influx of visitors [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 9:32 AM, April 5th, 2010 5 comments

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Apparently mortality happens because people live in spaces that are too comfortable. Arakawa & Gins’ solution is to make buildings that leave people disoriented, alert, challenged and active, enabling them to ‘counteract the usual human destiny of having to die’ [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 5:31 PM, March 11th, 2010 1 comment

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In the Gifu Prefecture of Japan is Yoro Park, a site of reversible destiny by architecture/poetry duo Arakawa & Gins. Appropriately, they provide clear ‘directions for use’ [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 3:31 PM, February 25th, 2010 4 comments

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In the ancient city of Kyoto, the O House is a cylindric tower extending from a two-story home [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 11:00 PM, February 8th, 2010 0 comments

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“I wanted to make a space with very ambiguous borderlines, which has a fluctuation between local spaces and the overall space,” says Junya Ishigami of his new structure at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 1:00 AM, December 28th, 2009 3 comments

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For many years Yokohama was considered little more than a dormitory city for Tokyo, but in recent years it has established itself as home to some of the most exciting cultural events and artistic communities  [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 4:18 AM, November 20th, 2009 1 comment

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A cave-like structure that appears both open and closed, rough and smooth, heavy and floating, the onishimaki + hyakudayuki space currently open MOT changes its form dramatically as you navigate through and around it [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 20th, 2009 0 comments

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Bringing together two of Japan’s most visionary and free spirited women, an installation from SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima for Comme des Garçons has opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 1:00 AM, November 9th, 2009 4 comments

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Currently celebrating its 5th year, The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art remains an extraordinary feature of the quiet, remote and inclement town of Kanazawa [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 4th, 2009 0 comments

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A new exhibition has just opened at 21_21 Design Site (a foundation that was established by Issey Mikaye and friends in 2007), showcasing 100 objects by product designer  Naoto Fukasawa, accompanied by images of his work from photographer Tamotsu Fujii [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 7:46 PM, October 21st, 2009 0 comments

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The British author Angela Carter was one of many to become fascinated with the ephemerally of things in Tokyo, which she described as a city of ‘constantly changing appearances, all marvellous but none tangible.’ [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, September 21st, 2009 1 comment

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Everybody knows Japanese architects have got it going on. While we marvel at their edifaces all the time, it is less comon to be able to peek behind the ‘walls’ into their prepatory processes. In recent flea market rummaging I scored Drawings by Contemporary Japanese Architects [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:39 AM, August 14th, 2009 0 comments

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In a short space of time Kazuya Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA have achieved international acclaim with projects around the world such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Louvre Annex, Lens, France; the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 10:42 PM, July 4th, 2009 3 comments