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Musashino Art University Museum & Library
Musashino Art University Museum & Library (Tokyo.) By Sou Fujimoto
Looks pretty interesting....
Concept was to surround and shelter the user with the books they go to read.
© Daici Ano
© Daici Ano
Some Japan Blogs...
Here are some blogs I've been looking at... gives you more of a feel for the place!
from Hello Sandwich
The streets of Japan - http://gairo.tumblr.com/
Japan photos tumblr - http://kinyoubi.tumblr.com/
Jollygoo blog - http://jollygoo.blogspot.com/
Hello Sandwich - http://hellosandwich.blogspot.com/
mmmmm chicken katsu :)
A-Z Cafe
Also found out about a place called A-Z Cafe which is a collaborative project between Graf and Yoshitomo Nara.
Information and Photos below lifted from- http://mocoloco.com/tokyo/archives/002586.php#more
 If you find yourself in Tokyo, one thing you'll quickly realize is that there is no lack of stylish cafes, and so new ones are now trying to push the creative envelope in order to stand out. Enter the recently opened AtoZ Cafe, a collaborative project between artist Yoshitomo Nara and design unit Graf. An unlikely rustic setting -- especially unlikely when you consider that the cafe is found on the fifth floor of a building in Aoyama -- welcomes you in what comes off as a sweet and homey environment, with the majority of the tables surrounding a "house" that acts as a sort of showroom/exhibition space for some of Nara's works. Add a well designed menu (decorated of course by Nara, and which you can keep as a souvenir) and tasty selections, and you get a new Aoyama winner in the cafe sweepstakes.      |
Cafe Pause
Taken from: http://jeansnow.net/cafepause/
Cafe Pause is located in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district (on the east side of Ikebukuro station) and, among other things, is home to the PauseTalk series of monthly talk events, aiming to create a forum where Tokyo-based creatives can get together and discuss their own projects, as well as cultural currents of the city.
The cafe has its own site (in Japanese). The image above was created by Luis Mendo (GOOD Inc.) for the Cafe Pause Poster Series.
Cafe Pause
2-14-12-1F Minami-Ikebukuro
Toshima-ku, Tokyo
171-0022
2-14-12-1F Minami-Ikebukuro
Toshima-ku, Tokyo
171-0022
Apparently Jean Snows blog is worth a follow for design culture in Tokyo, he organises Pecha Kucha events in Tokyo. Theres an architecture section so I've been having a peek at that....worth a look guys.
http://jeansnow.net/category/art-design/architecture/
Peters House
Lifted from The Archi-Tourist
Located in Toyama Prefecture, in Japan's "Alps," this pavilion -- also referred to as "Peter House" by locals and on street signs, in honor of the architect -- was part of the Toyama Prefecture's machi no kao (face of the town) series of small projects in the early 1990s, which also included buildings and urban design by Enric Miralles, Tom Heneghan, and other overseas architects. Salter also designed and realized the nearby Inami Woodcarving Museum as part of the program (see link at bottom of page). The pavilion is reached by winding roads that take visitors deep into the beautiful mountains. Once reaching what is basically the end of the road, Peter House is hidden behind thick trees on one side and open to the river on the other three sides.
The exact purpose of the primarily open-air structure is not apparent at first glance. A deck is its sole outdoor space, though stone steps provide access around and below the pavilion. Inside, stairs lead to a viewing platform that points upstream towards mountain peaks beyond.
Images:
Address:
Bambajina, Toyama, Japan
Map/Directions/Info:
Driving directions: In the aerial above, the pavilion blends into the surroundings, but it is the object in the center that is casting a shadow to the west. Click "view larger map" to see the roads and the location of the pavilion relative to Kamiichi, the nearest town. Using Google Maps as a guide, from Kamiichi train station drive east on 46 to 333. The pavilion is about a 30-minute drive into the mountains, on the north side of 333, opposite a camp. See the map below (from a pamphlet onmachi no kao) for detailed directions in Japanese:
Other buildings by architect:
Links:
October 12, 2011
October 08, 2011
Not new, but its space.
Probably the only photo I have from New York that doesn't have myself or Annie in it. What bad architecture students we are! The storefront for art and architecture by Steven Holl is sited on a corner between Chinatown, Little Italy and SOHO and has an very interesting approach to the street. Rather than just creating a straight forward facade to the street the hinged panels fold out onto the sidewalk REALLY impacting on the urban space and pretty much forcing the public to interact with it (you have to walk around the panels when on the sidewalk). I think its interesting to think how these panels extend the "space" Steven Holl has to work with and the spatial impact it has on the built and cultural fabric of New York. But what do you think?
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