Saturday, April 11, 2009

Kinuta Kōen(砧公園)


To a nearby park, went for walks. This year's cherry blossom viewing season has lots of low temperatures, the weather is too bad. But on this day, very warm, was crowded with many people. Cherry trees are very scattered in large measure, the wind was blowing a good spring. The dance of the pollen season, many clad masked.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Musée du Quai Branly in Paris

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, museum buildings became larger in the presence and appeal to tourists (and the Jewish Museum Berlin). I think the next theme is the relationship between content and exhibition space.

Musée du quai Branly case, it was a major theme of the collection assessment and deployment of non-European, but this novel architecture, at the same time, relationships and attractive exhibition.

It is a single building is not visible, and still aim to harmonize the various complex. Without a sense of proportion to intimidate, leaving off the building, I felt like a built environment.
Approach
Surrounding the building by a large glass screen, the exhibit feels like the environment itself, it is not only alludes to the exhibition is being paid, and the operation seemed to erase the boundary between architecture and exhibits. Lush trees, and also into the wind as the landscape, the exhibition space before the actual go and walk a long slope. Done to the floor several images, as an effective sign and also acts as a change of heart.

Exhibition space
The feel of a single space, you can choose a route to freedom. In contrast, the sequences are well made and is composed enough to be felt in every area of the flow.

Light, the silk screen over the printing of trees, is narrowed down to just feel how much is on display to come to effect in the jungle. They came in many pupils teacher, a staff of around Africa wearing the native dress, and looked at the figures to tell the tales to explain.

Never use of coercive context of the theme park-like, while using the vocabulary of design JEAN NOUVEL been the origin of space and feel Oceania and Africa. That is, I think that strictly from the L’Institut du Monde Arabe.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Shinjuku Golden Gai/Street shocker




Sunday to the theater to "Shinjuku Golden Gai" I went to. Act by Bull Docking Headlock. 40 was not just a small theater. Here is "The Hanazono Shrine" adjoining, was built after the Second World War "row houses built in wood shop," in line like a matchbox across a narrow lane. Also known as street artists gather many journalists. Tokyo is such a "bar street" and some still remain.

My edited video @youtube.