Contemporary Japanese architecture makes my heart beat faster.

[misaseba]

Am I in love? ._.

Kuro by Takuya Hosokai and Hiromasa Mori: A WTF house kdfgdsk

TOO49 by 16A: A housing complex close to Tokyo's Haneda airport that makes my heart skip a beat

NE apartment by Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi and Hirofumi Ohno: "a block of eight apartments for motorcycle enthusiasts in Tokyo." hdgfkdsf oh, organic architecture...

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[somaisgood]

Hara Kenya is one of the most inspiration Japanese graphic designers for me.




He is so brilliant. My heart. T_T

[somaisgood]

And OMG MISE. WHY AREN'T YOU ONLINE SO I CAN SPAZZ ABOUT DESIGN.

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?
They got a bunch of architects working in Asian to put together a exhibition with pieces only created out of white lego blocks. THE RESULTS ARE GEEHHHH ♥♥♥

[somaisgood]

Mise. I really really want this book. But the only way to get it is through Amazon JP and omg their 3000yen shipping. D:

[misaseba]

あなたの好みの団地が、絶対見つかるはず。

This sounds fantastic. jdsgfdskf

And oh oh, DO YOU KNOW THE 11 MARCH MEMORIAL BY STUDIO FAM IN MADRID? THE ONE THAT WON THE BALTHASAR NEUMANN PRIZE 2008? It's just... amazing. I love it to bits!

go here -> proyectos -> 2007 monumento homenaje a la víctimas de los atentados del 11-M. madrid

[somaisgood]

GEEHHH. MISE. THAT BUILDING. OMG. IT GIVES ME SHIVERS. I WANT TO GO THERE AND LOOK UP AND EXPERIENCE IT.

Man. I still haven't even been to the effing Guggenheim. D:

[somaisgood]

And omg. Beijing is getting some of the most amazing buildings for the Olympics. Nevermind that they're all designed by European architects. /xD

[misaseba]

I really, really love the Aquatics Center. I saw it featured on the architecture magazine that I'm getting every month and gaaah. ♥

style: Deconstructivist
I lol-ed a bit. For whatever reason. LOL

[somaisgood]

Style tte. ^^
God, I had an assignment 2 semesters ago where we had to create a composition out of nothing but the letters "deconstructivism" in Helvetica. And the prof kept telling us, "that's too control, more complexity!" Guh. D<

The interior of the Aquatics Centre look so amazing. *_* I think I'd just be staring at the ceiling the whole time, rather than the events. LOL.

[misaseba]

/pat This sounds so horrible. -_-

To be honest Im a bit baffled why they would hire Europeans to construct the Olympic buildings. Where are the Chinese architects, man?

From dezeen again, but eeeh, this is so awesome. ♥ Tsunagu by Kengo Kuma

His name is Kuma. LOL

[somaisgood]

...It feels as if they want to show off a bit. Hiring renown European architects to design showy European designs. Instead of designing to the environment, design something that catches attention from miles away.

*_* I'm a huge sucker for minimalism, you know? (grr, go away deconstructivists D<)

You're so mature, Mise. LOL. His name is like Kongo but with an e, pfft. Haha.

[misaseba]

I LOVE IT TOO. *______*

When you said Guggenheim I was thinking of the Guggenheim museum in Berlin and I was like ??? But then I googled and found out that there are also one in New York, Venice and Bilbao. OTZ Haha

[somaisgood]

The closest one is the New York one. One of my profs was saying how he totally couldn't stand being inside of the NY one because of the way the museum was designed, you view the art by walking around a spiral ramp and all the art is hung slightly slanted to compensate and he gets so oc about it, haha.

But the one I really want to go see is Bilbao. *_*


Will keep commenting when I've gotten home. /xD

I'M COMMENTING RANDOMLY TO STUFF YOU SAID HAHA

[misaseba]

OH! I KNOW ATELIER BOW-WOW! /ting But I had no idea about this exhibition. Are the building forms shown the results?

SHIGERU BAN IS MY IDOL. T_T♥

I'M SORRY THAT I'M NOT ONLINE BUT I'M SUPPOSED TO GO TO BED - OR WORK ON AN ASSIGNMENT NOW. OTZ

As a designer I really adore NENDO's works.

EEEEH, HARA KENYA'S WORKS LOOK SO GREAT. *___*

My main inspiration is Ando as of right now. ♥ AND SANAA AND ATELIER TEKUTO AND BEARTH & DEPLAZES (oh wait, they're not Japanese lol)

D:

[somaisgood]

IN RESPONSE TO THE BRICK BY BRICK EXHIBITION:
You should read this article. They've got bigger pictures. I don't understand why awesome things like these don't go on to release a book. D:

I'VE GOT A WHOLE FOLDER BOOKMARKED JUST FOR JAPANESE DESIGN. I need to make a post about all my design books. *_* TALK TO ME SOON.

NENDO ♥. Do you know about dentsu? They're one the largest advertising firms in the world. They've got chapters in every major country. It's too bad that they're so big they don't even need to show examples of their work on the Japanese website. D: But you can see some of their stuff in other chapters' sites around the world. And their mascot is a blob of wasabi. >D

OMG MISE. DO YOU KNOW WHO'S DESIGNING THE 24 JIKAN TEREBI T-SHIRT THIS YEAR?? MURAKAMI TAKASHI! /spaz I have a huge artbook of his work with large fold out spreads. T_T

Re: D:

[misaseba]

AAAAAAAAAH MURAKAMI TAKASHI! WAIT. WHAT Wait wait, who's hosting the show this year? Arashi?

I need to make a post about all my design books. *_*
*_______________* YES. THAT'S DEFINITELY A YES!

Yarrr

[somaisgood]

Arashi is hosting. Yeah.

MURAKAMI TAKASHI IS LIKE MY IDOL. HAVE YOU SEEN THE LV COMMERCIAL HE DID?

GUH. He recently had an exhibition at MoMA. I reaaally wanted to go. D: