Architecture
Someone once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Here's a little jitterbug to buildings and the spaces they enclose.
Two onigawara from Yakushima
2006.08.13, 18:23 | Comments (1)
Of course you knew you were going to see onigawara from Yakushima
The sheer up-ness of it all
2005.05.18, 23:43 | Comments (2)
I would never, ever tire of walking these streets
Empire State
2005.05.18, 22:03 | Comments (6)
Intermittent connectivity here – I’m walking around Manhattan with an Apollo mission command centre in my backpack, ready to leap onto the net at the merest sniff of a wi-fi signal.
Kyoto to try to preserve town houses
2005.02.28, 13:15 | Comments (5)
I hope this helps to raise awareness of preservation efforts throughout the country.
Muji house
2005.02.20, 10:37 | Comments (2)
Behold, the Muji house.
The Water Cube
2004.09.03, 23:42 | Comments (10)
An incredibly beautiful rendering of the aquatic centre intended for the Beijing Olympics.
An accidental visit to Roppongi Hills
2004.06.22, 23:54 | Comments (9)
I found myself close to Roppongi Hills this afternoon with some time to kill and decided to approach the monolith — tentatively — and have a look at the place.
Hadid wins Pritzker
2004.03.23, 10:07 | Comments (1)
Zaha Hadid has won the 2004 Pritzker Prize in architecture.
Prada Tokyo
2003.10.21, 10:07 | Comments (6)
I saw the Prada Tokyo building for the first time last night came away a convert — not to Prada (I’m every bit as suspicious of high-priced clothing as I ever was) but certainly to the work of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the architects.
Concrete Poetry
2003.08.17, 13:41 | Comments (3)
At a nearby construction site — builders drawing plans, scrawling notes on an unpainted wall. Thus the building helps with its own creation.
Odaiba
2003.08.12, 19:38 | Comments (11)
Whatever the intention, no expense has been spared in making the place thoroughly disconcerting. The dominant message, delivered with a quiet fascistic certainty, is that in the future everything will be like this, so you’d best get used to it. [A collection of photographs from the non-place of Odaiba.]
Weird House
2003.08.12, 16:42 | Comments (41)
Here’s a weird house I found. From the shape it appears tro be a regular old house but — god knows why — it’s been covered (windows and all) in sheet tin which seems to be held together with aluminium construction scaffolding.
Zaha Hadid’s First Building in U.S.
2003.06.09, 09:47 | Comments (3)
Herbert Muschamp in the NYTimes on Zaha Hadid’s first building in America, the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati: “Might as well blurt it out: the Rosenthal Center is the most important American building to be completed since the end of the cold war.”
Utzon Wins Pritzker Prize
2003.04.07, 12:11 | Comments (0)
Joern Utzon has won this year’s Pritzker Prize.
Corrugated Housing
2003.04.02, 12:01 | Comments (25)
Talk about minimalism. This is an old photograph of the front of a house which lives a few blocks away. Everything’s corrugated tin or plastic.
By a Creek in Shinmachi
2003.03.03, 01:33 | Comments (7)
A magnificent old house on a creek lined with cherry trees in Shinmachi, Setagaya-ku.
Small Cloud Onigawara
2003.02.19, 23:56 | Comments (0)
Here’s one of the small tiles from the house that got knocked down.
Very Very Uchi
2003.02.10, 16:40 | Comments (3)
What does this old house in Tokyo have in common with John Ford’s The Searchers? Quite a lot, if you enjoy making shit up as I do.
Big Cloud Onigawara
2003.02.09, 17:05 | Comments (2)
Another photo of one of the onigawara (demon plates) from an old house that no longer exists.
Shiny
2003.01.20, 16:22 | Comments (5)
A view from the plaza of Tokyo’s Opera City building.
Taiwanese ‘Architecture’
2002.12.22, 00:40 | Comments (11)
James Boyden, a friend living in Taiwan, has sent along these photographs of some truly hideous local architecture – if it can be called that – and abandoned highrise.
Takahashi Soba-ya
2002.12.06, 12:05 | Comments (3)
A not-bad shot of the Takahashi noodle shop out by Mt. Takao. Best damned noodles I’ve ever had.
House #8
2002.11.23, 20:18 | Comments (3)
As House Week morphs into an occasional series, here’s something recent which seems to work where others fail.
House Week #7: Textures & Fabric
2002.11.10, 14:31 | Comments (4)
Fabric and textures: a look at various surfaces.
House Week #6
2002.11.09, 17:09 | Comments (3)
There are few right-thinking people who didn’t develop a morbid fear of concrete and pastels colours during the 1980s.
House Week #5
2002.11.07, 22:59 | Comments (5)
House Week #5: how extremely rich people with good taste live.
House Week #4
2002.11.02, 23:19 | Comments (4)
A few random shots from the neighbourhood. A kura, a falling down house, and the amber fields of rice in suburban Tokyo.
House Week #3
2002.11.01, 15:07 | Comments (4)
The blue house.
House Week #2
2002.10.31, 23:22 | Comments (3)
Here’s a house that’s been around the block once or twice. Unfortunately it’s another one of those walled-off numbers….
House Week #1
2002.10.29, 00:56 | Comments (1)
A quick entry for House Week today. I wish the photo showed the weathered wood a bit better. I…
House Week (At Last)
2002.10.27, 23:33 | Comments (1)
House Week finally begins!
Subliminal Ryoanji
2002.09.26, 10:30 | Comments (2)
Don’t miss this wonderful reading of one of the great gardens of the world, the Zen rock garden of Ryoanji….
No House Week!
2002.09.09, 16:35 | Comments (7)
This week was supposed to be House Week on Antipixel, wherein I was going to present a series of photographs…
The Real Demon
2002.09.06, 16:26 | Comments (4)
It’s raining hard today so I can’t photograph all of the tiles properly, but I simply have to show…
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