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"AVANT GUARDE HIGHEST FASHION. NOW NOW this is it people, these are the brands no one fucking knows and people are like WTF. they do everything by hand in their freaking secret basement and shit."
google it, I'm sure theres info. its designed by Sachio Otani. the Kyoto Protocol was actually signed there.
some work by Takao Shiotsuka:
"AVANT GUARDE HIGHEST FASHION. NOW NOW this is it people, these are the brands no one fucking knows and people are like WTF. they do everything by hand in their freaking secret basement and shit."
For now i found this building quite amazing, unfortunately my camera is playing up so i will post only one of my shots Designed by Metabolist architect Kiyonori Kikutake
Agree on Libeskind, his work for the most part is repetitive and uninspired with little thought given to the environs and use of space. ROM crystal, Imperial War Museum, London library, Denver museum, all a big yawn that is nearly as tiresome as Hadid. But colossal jutting assymetric objects is what draws the public's attention.
i agree, some of the best architecture doesn't see the light enough due to various circumstances such as low-key personality of the architect, marginalized attention of a certain place/country by media, etc..
here is one. it is a small chapel designed and built in the late 1950s-early 1960s by an architect called chen chi-kwan. he is actually much more known in the states and europe as one of the most prominent pioneering modern artists of chinese descent; incidentally, the national palace museum in taipei is currently running his 90yr retrospective exhibition that i helped curate :) here's the link for those interested: http://www.npm.gov.tw/exh98/Chikwan/
his professional career, however, was as an architect; who went to taiwan to work on the masterplan of the tung-hai university campus and the chapel in collaboration with i.m.pei. and although pei claims the designs as well, it has been widely proven by scholars, professionals, critics, etc that everything was designed by chen chi-kwan.
anyway, enough said; alot more background in the npm site or google search. here're some pictures of the chapel...
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