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House T
A flexible two-story residence / atelier (75sqm), designed for a young couple by Japanese studio Hiroyuki Shinozaki. The architects created a shifted box where funcions are distributed over the various levels, allowing visual connectivity and communication throughout all storeys of the house.
photos by Hiroyasu Sakaguchi and Tatsumi Terado.
Around Life is a Body We Are Part Of
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto created four biomorphic installations for -a Mentoring young Artists exhibition w/ guest video artist Evandro Machado, titled- “Madness is Part of Life” at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo.
The main artpiece A vida é um corpo do qual fazemos parte or LIBWPO (Life Is a Body We Are Part Of), made of synthetic strings and plastic balls consists of two parts and visitors are invited to move, sit or lay down in “Zoid aisle up and the ovule living room”.
Neto describes his work with the following: “It is a sculpture to be experienced. We also have the idea to lift people up close to the glass building in such a way that would cause them to experience some vertigo, or at least deal with the feeling of floating in the “Sky”. The piece is a work which deals with stability – how we move, desire and fear.”
Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center
The Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center, in Tokyo by architect Kengo Kuma.
photos by guen-k, via spoon & tamago
The Returning Tree
Directed & animated by Tokyo based motion designer Yuri Serizawa
Music: “Stillness” – Lycoriscoris // “Amenooto” – Lycoriscoris.
via robot mafia
House in Meguro
Large storage furniture with built-in stairs inside a private house in Tokyo, part of -an ongoing- gut renovation project by Torafu Architects.
via spoon & tamago
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Contact Lens
Acrylic lenses installation by Hiroshima-born artist Haruka Kojin, from the exhibition “Architectural Environments for Tomorrow – new spatial practices in architecture and art” @ MOT, Art Museum Tokyo.
via design boom
Numabookcat
“Numabookcat” is the second installation of the mobile bookshop by numabooks, on display at NADiff window gallery in Ebisu, Tokyo. You may remember the numabook shop concept from the first bookshop installation “Numabookface” by Nam collective (aka designer Takayuki Nakazawa and photographer Hiroshi Manaka) where: ” the paperbacks are for sale but it is not the customer who chooses which to purchase. numabooks will select the perfect books for each customer, from the answer he/she gave us, for the question “tell us about yourself”
Blind
Short film set in post-nuclear Tokyo, by Yukihiro Shoda and Jamie Hollan
via spoon & tamago
NDE and the tunnel of light #2
Long exposure shots by Flickr user AppuruPai from the Yurikamome train line, which connects the artificial island Odaiba to the rest of Tokyo via the Rainbow Bridge.
Found here. Trivia on NDE here.
Equal
Sculpture created from found glass objects by japanese artist Hideki Kuwajima. The artist is represented by Roentgenwerke art gallery, Tokyo.
via designboom
Urban Interiorites
The texturized city block exterior of ”Urban Interiorites” a restaurant/ urban club located at the Harajuku area of Tokyo. Designed as a student project at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, the cutting-edge façade and interiors for Urban Interiorites were conceptualized and realized by the school’s professor Ali Rahim, his partner Tiffany Dahien, and Virginia Melnyk.
see the interior here
stylish stackable boxes
The SN. House by Japanese atelierA5 is located on a narrow side street in a dense residential area in Tokyo. By enclosing the borders of the plot with perforated metal sheets the architects turned the otherwise unusable left-over space between the outside walls and the site boundary into entrance hall and service corridors on the ground floor and outdoor extension for the first floor living room. The metallic enclosure offers privacy but also filtered sunlight, wind and views. The rest of the floors are invested with different materials and are set back to adhere to local regulations create terraces for each level. Clever solution, isn’t it?
via dezeen
Cherry blossom house
Architecture in your head
These hairstyles are strictly forbidden on the tube, in caving, in mining, and in certain theatres. They are amazingly suitable for parachuting, oriental dancing, drinking soft drinks with a straw,surprise parties and fashion shows. Created by Peter Gray and Masa Honda for the Asia Beauty Expo 2010 in Tokyo.
(read Peter Gray’s interview here)
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