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tokyo skytree 東京スカイツリー

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Posted on October 4, 2012 by Shabbar

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Tokyo Tower

The view from the tallest free-standing structure in the world, Tokyo Skytree: The Marunouchi CBD framing the Tokyo Tower

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Jean Nouvel’s intricately layered dome at the Louvre Abu Dhabi is incredible every time I see it. En route between meetings in town I sat down for a lunch in the dappled light and sea breeze with the echoes of birds nesting above.

A brief stop at Hogonin Temple, Arashiyama, Kyoto for a tea and garden break between meetings in Kobe and Tokyo.

A museum sculpted as a vertical landscape, blurring indoor and outdoor with green, light-filled terraces. Bridging old and new, nature and artifice, cliff-like yet hovering like a cloud above the city.

A city of grids overlaid on a landscape of hills and valleys. On a map it looks straightforward but try walking across the city and you’re faced with a challenging (and rewarding) experience.

The rugged coastline of San Francisco at Land’s End.

The copper-clad de Young Museum torques upward from Golden Gate Park like powerful tectonic plates, tearing fissures across the landscape. There are moments where those fissures become glass encased terrariums and crisp skylights. The building hovers between solidity and transparency, monolithic yet ephemeral. The impressive structure shelters dark, wood-lined galleries, filtering in a delicate light, like the dappled sun coming through the ferns. Great building and equally impressive curation.

Hello gorgeous. This city is blessed with natural beauty and is beguiling at every turn.

The red sand dunes of Sharjah near the border with Oman.

Vaughan City Hall, KPMB Architects. Finally seeing this project built north of Toronto after many years. #latergram

The new Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, relocated to 1 Spadina Crescent. Nader Tehrani and his team have sculpted light-filled studios, framed vistas out to the city and carved a subterranean library out of this modernized Victorian structure.

While in Montreal a colleague took me on a tour of a cultural centre she designed with local studios L’Oeuf and Atelier Big City. The building is composed of a library, theatre, Fab Lab, artist in residence space and other multi-purpose rooms to serve the community. The program is woven together across two floors with several vertically interconnected social spaces. A highlight of this cultural centre is an integrated art piece by Hal Ingberg in the main lobby. The artist used the architectural language of screens to create an iridescent layer which filters the light through a clerestory. The effect is ephemeral and ever-changing through the day. This public project is a great addition to the local community - on the weekend it was buzzing with activity and obviously well-loved.

ssense select boutique / cafe in Montreal’s Old Port. David Chipperfield Architects renovated this historic 19th Century structure next to the Notre Dame Basilica. The space is a minimalist temple for luxury fashion, it’s vault-like stainless steel doors and wall-panels along with tank grey concrete are sublime. It’s as if this sleek interior has been slipped into a historic stone frame - and it fits as perfectly as a supple leather glove.

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