Architecture
One of the most surprising works of art at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa is a “fake” swimming pool. The pool has just 10 cm of water over a glass surface, it looks like a normal swimming pool until you realize that it is hollow and you can go inside and [...]
This summer we visited Nichitsu Ghost Town, our second visit to a haikyo 廃墟 after exploring an abandoned hospital in Atsugi last year. This time our destination was much further from Tokyo, near the heart of Japan, where Gunma, Saitama and Nagano prefectures get together. We rented a van, and Antonio, our beloved driver, took [...]
Lately I haven’t updated my collection of pictures of thin buildings but I’ve found this post in weburbanist with some pictures of extremely thin buildings in Japan. It is not rare to spot one of these buildings in Japan; I’m not sure but I think that the laws to partition the land are somehow special [...]
Asahi Kasei, the company where I worked six years ago researching about speech recognition systems, also designs and builds houses. One of their latest designs is a house specially designed to live together with cats. The cat-friendly house is designed so that humans can coexist with several cats while the cats can move in total [...]
When somebody asks me for a truly “weird” place in Tokyo, the Turkish mosque in Yoyogi Uehara is one of the places that comes to my mind. It’s not really impressive but if you visit it, it will make you feel like you are outside Japan for some moments, it’s a quite mysterious sensation. The [...]
I came across these mosaics in a mysterious office building in Akihabara that we visited the other day; they are somewhat weird but original anyhow.
At Ikusuki’s blog I find these fabulous images of a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, something similar to the works of Motoda Hisaharu but in color. Just behind Tocho. In Shibuya next to the home appliances store Sakuraya. The ironic thing is that some months ago Bic Camera bought Sakuraya and one of the consequences is that they [...]
X-Seed 4000 is the name of the tallest planned building ever (even though it was never built). The X-Seed 4000 sketches and concept were designed by Peter Neville for Taisei Corporation and it was supposed to be built at the Tokyo bay. According to plan, the X-Seed 4000 would be 4 km tall, would be [...]
