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Mori Building’s Vertical Garden City
Mori Minoru’s Mori Building is Tokyo’s largest urban real estate developer. His Vertical Garden City idea and Urban New Deal Policy are private enterprise visions for a re-made city that is at once...
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Tokyobessesion: drawings by Pierre Alex
On Monday I visited my new friend Pierre Alex’s “tokyobsession” art opening of drawings, whose subject is Tokyoites. A French product designer, Pierre is a talented illustrator, and this collection of...
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Fiber City: Tokyo 2050
Fiber City: Tokyo 2050 is a vision of the future of Tokyo with a radically new balance between natural and built environment, conceived by Professor Ohno Hidetoshi of Tokyo University. I am fascinated...
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Riverbank community garden in Tsukishima
An architect friend tipped me off to a community garden on a riverbank in Tsukishima. The local government has organized each small section of the concrete retaining wall into individual plots where...
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Mori Building plans ecological zones in Tokyo
Nikkei article about Mori Building’s plan for central Tokyo ecological zones. The idea is that wildlife can spread out from interconnected large green spaces, including existing parks and large-scale...
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Sakura Beauty: from nature to craft
Sakura season is perhaps my favorite time in Tokyo. After a long cold winter, the beauty of cherry blossoms is stunning. I have been out and about this past week, enjoying hanami, or cherry blossom...
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The end of the walkway is approaching
友だちに会うために、最近に辰巳に行きました。運河がきれいで、新しいマンションが建設されています。しかし、公共のインフラは不全なままです。改良して、水辺に近づけるほうがいいと思います。東京湾をもっと感じたいです。 I recently visited Tatsumi, a landfill island near Yumenoshima in in Koto-ku for a house...
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Making a giant green map with pre-schoolers in Shibaura. Kids still enjoy...
芝浦の小学校で、未来町を考えるのために、子供たちは生き物の絵を書いて、巨人の地図にはりました。水辺と公園が子供たちを引きつけました。このイベントで、たくさん新いテクノロジーがありましたが、子供たちまだ絵と塗り絵がまだ好きです。 Recently I conducted a kids art workshop at Shibaura’s public elementary school. The...
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