Showing posts with label Japanese architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese architecture. Show all posts
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Japanese architect Nikken Sekkei has completed the Hoki Museum (ホキ美術館) in Chiba, Japan. It is Japan's first museum dedicated to Realist painting.
"What makes Realist painting so fascinating? Realist art works depict what the painter sees, as is. These works are intricately worked, each massively time-consuming, as the painter creates just a few works a year, facing the same canvas day after day. And when we see the worlds created in such works, we sense that the painting has so much more to say than the reality it depicts.
Today, the Hoki Museum collections include 300 works by some 40 painters, ranging from great masters to young artists. Up until now, there have been few opportunities to see Realist works in Japan. The Hoki Museum will now fill that void. My hope is that the Hoki Museum will be a "healing museum" where visitors can appreciate the art works slowly and thoroughly."
Masao Hoki
Director, Hoki Museum
Nikken Sekkei
Hoki Museum (ホキ美術館)
Chiba, Japan
Images: © Ken Lee 2010 @ flickr
Interior Decoration
"The most important is to create an image of Finland. The Embassy must represent Finland in the right way."
Rainer Mahlamäki
Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd
Embassy Of Finland In Tokyo
Tokyo
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Interior Decorating
Neil Barrett, the English born, Italian living designer (who was also recently featured in a spread in GQ), has just opened a new store front in the Minami-Aoyama district of Tokyo. The Barrett store was designed by Zaha Hadid, one of the most successful female designer in the world.
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Neil Barrett Tokyo Store
Zaha Hadid
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House Construction
'Soil' and 'Porosity', this building design was inpired by the characteristics of the material - Ooya stone which is soft to touch with its softest portion- the 'miso'- formed of soil trapped within it. A soft and warm ambience that invites the user is induced in the space through the extensive use of this stone.
The Ooya stone is stacked in pairs and woven into a basket like surface. Steel plates form the broad skeleton of the structure and the stone surfaces are woven between them.
Chokkura Plaza
Tochigi, Japan
via: architecture-page
House Construction
"Out of a desire to respect both the sublime works to be displayed and the natural setting, I made it my goal in designing the new Gallery of Horyuji Treasures to create on the site an environment of a kind that has become all too rare in present-day Tokyo, that is, an environment characterized by tranquility, order and dignity."
Yoshio Taniguchi
The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures
Yoshio Taniguchi
The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures
Tokyo National MuseumTokyo, Japan
Photo: © AJI
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House Construction
Toyo Ito is the winner of the architecture competition for the Opera House to build in Taichung, Taiwan. Irregular geometries give the structure a continuous fluidity, it reflects the idea of theatrical arts.
“Architecture has to follow the diversity of society, and has to reflect that a simple square or cube can’t contain that diversity.”
Toyo Ito
“Architecture has to follow the diversity of society, and has to reflect that a simple square or cube can’t contain that diversity.”
Toyo Ito
Taichung Metropolitan Opera HouseTaichung City
Taiwan
House Construction
The elegant architecture begins with a unique space carved out of a simple volume that is shaped by the force and fluidity of Abu Dhabi wind...With its reflective surface, the water court visually merges site and sea, reinforcing the maritime theme of the museum.
Tadao Ando Architectimage © archnewsnow
Remodeling Interior Design
"The idea of using metal fabric was initially derived from the idea of "piling up trunks". I though the surface would be covered in fabric like trunks. At the same time, because I did not want to realize them literally as enlarged trunks but as mirages, the double skin was proposed."Jun Aoki
Louis Vuitton
Omotesando
Tokyo, Japan
Photo: © archidose
Remodeling Interior Design
Water & light"the pavilions that float on the water... Lighting differs between the spaces, from diffused light in the narrow galleries to reflected light onto the concrete haunches of the wider galleries. A desire for diffused and reflected natural light was a major influence on the building's design. "
Tadao Ando
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Fort Worth
image © Fort Worth
Remodeling Interior Design
"I compared man to tarzan.
tarzan in the jungle creates his body and develops it in contact with nature,
in relation to the surrounding environment.
modern man is a sort of tarzan who lives in the world of media,
within a very developed technology.
architecture should be a sort of media-clothing,
which is necessary in order for man to have a relationship
with and integrate himself into the environment.
the idea of media-clothing is a metaphor."
Toyo Ito
Remodeling Interior Design
"walls are the most basic elements of architecture,and in all my works, light is an important factor. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. "
Tadao Ando
Remodeling Interior Design
"I attempted to generate a dynamic sequence of spaces appropriate to the exhibition’s scale."
Tadao Ando
Image © haukedressler
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