Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
The largest clear-span wooden building in the world, constructed entirely without glue wood, was built as a U.S. military air station hangar. It is now the Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon. More info here and Wikipedia.
It’s nice to see communities saving these old military hangars.
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Tags: architecture, Austria, Habitat 76, Habitat Forum, hangar, Japan, Jericho, largest wooden building, Mark Osburn, Metropol Parasol, military, Norway, Oregon, repurposed, Russian, Sutyagin House, Tillamook, Tōdai-ji, Vancouver, wood, wooden
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
I wish I’d curated this show:
“Stripes are a fundamental visual element, appearing naturally in vertical lines as trees and in manmade products of all kinds, from street dividers to ornate fabrics. The stripe is so basic it is rarely given isolated attention. This installation examines how stripes decorate and structure objects, bodies and spaces.
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Tags: craft, fabric, geometric, geometry, Japan, Japanese, kimono, order, repetition, stripes, textiles
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Essay below reprinted from In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki (Leete’s Island Books, 1977)
What incredible pains the fancier of traditional architecture must take when he sets out to build a house in pure Japanese style, striving somehow to make electric wires, gas pipes, and water lines harmonize with the austerity of Japanese rooms—even someone who has never built a house for himself must sense this when he visits a teahouse, a restaurant, or an inn.
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Tags: darkness, In Praise of Shadows, Japan, Japanese architecture, Japanese interiors, Japanese interiors light shadow lighting, Junichiro Tanizaki
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Hiyao Miyazaki, one of my favourite filmmakers, is the Japanese director of the animated movies Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Totoro. Of all his films these three are favourite, probably because they are the most Japanese in their aesthetic. And of these three, I have the most affinity with Spirited Away.
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Tags: animated film, animation, bathhouse, Chihiro, daikon, film, Ghibli Studio, Hallowe'en costume, Hiyao Miyazaki, hollywood, Japan, Japanese, Kaonasi, No Face, Princess Mononoke, radish spirit, Sen, Spirited Away, Totoro, video, Yubaba, Zeniba
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Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Via Monocle. Thanks to Wilson Tang for pointing this out.
Twenty-nine Japanese families have found their version of happiness by creating their own idyll in a Tokyo suburb. Together with eco-architect Akinori Sagane they have built Kinoka no Ie, a community development in Machida-shi in the south of the city.
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Tags: Akinori Sagane, Ambiex, garden, Japan, Japanese, Kinoka no Ie, Sagane, Yoshiyuki Nakabayashi
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Sunday, March 27th, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux1ECrNDZl4g
Make a crane or many and send to:
Students Rebuild
1700 7th Avenue
STE 116 # 145
Seattle, WA 98101
The Bezos Family Foundation will donate $2 per crane to Architecture for Humanity’s Japan relief fund. Via archdaily.
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Tags: archdaily, Architecture For Humanity, Bezos Family Foundation, disaster relief, earthquake, Japan, Seattle, Students Rebuild, tsunami
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