Archive for the category Architecture

Highway in the 5th floor

Por kirai el 17 de November de 2008 en Architecture

This is one of my favorite buildings in Osaka:

I had taken many pictures of this building but I never thought of approaching to it. Anenglishmaninosaka did it, and he took this building directory picture:

It says “Highway from the 5th until the 7th floor”. I wonder if there is something else in the building…

I wonder if [...]

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Curved house

Por kirai el 23 de October de 2008 en Architecture

Interesting demolition method

Por kirai el 15 de July de 2008 en Architecture

Kajima Corporation is demolishing two skyscrapers using a silent, clean and fast original method. In the video you’ll see how they replace the first floor columns with metal ones supported by an hydraulic system controlled by computer, they can make the whole building to go down one level and repeat the same process over and [...]

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Burj Dubai

Por kirai el 12 de June de 2008 en Architecture

This impressive video shows Burj Dubai tower, a building that will be 820 tall once it’s finished. It looks like it’s not real, it seems a CG generated scene from a science fiction movie.

More about, what’s going on in Dubai in this video.
Found at Microsiervos.

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Edo-Tokyo museum

Por kirai el 19 de May de 2008 en Architecture

My mother recommended me Edo-Tokyo museum and I finally had time to visit it. I liked it a lot, even more than the National Museum. I couldn’t take pictures inside, but this is a picture of the building I took other day. It looks like it was designed by a Star Wars artist!

Next the museum [...]

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Drawing Tokyo from memory

Por kirai el 02 de May de 2008 en Architecture, Tokyo

I found this Stephen Wiltshire video in my Youtube favorites. Stephen was born with autism, and he could not learn how to speak until he was 9 years old. But he realized that he had a great special ability, he could memorize complicated things just by looking at them. He can just look from an [...]

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The biggest indoor swimming pool in the world

Por kirai el 10 de December de 2007 en Architecture, Various

“Ocean Dome”, located in Miyazaki, it’s the biggest indoor swimming pool in the world. It’s 300 meters long and 100 meters wide, and it’s located 500 meter from the sea. The temperature inside the pavilion it’s always around 30 degrees and the roof is sky-blue and it has even “clouds”. It has an artificial volcano [...]

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The shit building

Por kirai el 06 de December de 2007 en Architecture

When I went the first time to Asakusa and saw the Asahi Beer headquarters, my imagination told me that the strange sculpture on top of the building could be a “drop of beer”, because it’s golden and it looks like a drop? But a friend told me that the french artist who created the sculpture [...]

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Bandai headquarters

Por kirai el 06 de December de 2007 en Architecture, Videogames

New skyscraper in Shinjuku

Por kirai el 13 de November de 2007 en Architecture

At the East side of Shinjuku there are many skyscrapers. There is a new one, that is being built that caught my attention. It has a characteristic shape that reminds me the Agbar tower in Barcelona or Dubai’s Burj_Al_Arab building. The new Shinjuku skyscraper will be called “Shinkousha” and it will be 203.65 meters tall. [...]

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