Comments on: Sarugaku / Akihisa Hirata

By: wish

wish — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:53:24 +0000

these stairs make the space vital…

By: wish

wish — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:51:21 +0000

i love this game !

By: One

One — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:40:47 +0000

This is not Japan, but should be located elsewhere in Spain…

By: billy

billy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:40:22 +0000

I have been to this project recently. In regards to staircase, it really isn’t a problem in Japan. Japanese often walk stairs unlike America.

By: NY High Line « re:kuwait

NY High Line « re:kuwait — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:08:36 +0000

[...] There is ample space for parking in the surrounding lots. The landowners can even charge for parking during high demand. The buildings on either side of the promenade are 30 meters apart, which is wide enough to even allow the shops to extend inwards in places so as to have usable space above the extension. I imagine the end result would look something like this: [...]

By: mark

mark — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:20:57 +0000

having said that there are a lot of people with baby cars there as well and they just dont go there or they wait downstairs as the wife goes shopping- how yuppy. Its a boutique area and has no feel like a shotengai (japanese market or shopping street). I like the look but I dont like how it pushes the gentrification of Daikanyama. That is a big danger with great looking design. The people in the models and sketches become just that prototype models not real people. It creates an environment for high expensive trendy design. The rents go up, old historic architecture comes tumbling down and high rises move in for living space for the people who used to stop by on the weekends but now want to live there. It is happening there especially in the last 10 years.

Dont get me wrong the modernist in me loves it, the flow- of people, air, just not the flow of rich people’s money.

Architects spend too much time in trendy cafes leafing through trendy beutiful magazines and in their offices talking abouit people and making sketches. I love the build design process the opposite of this process.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:12:41 +0000

The stairs are not a huge problem because Daikanyama is filled with hills and if you dont want exercise dont go there. I am submitting a proposal for a “deadspace” there. A temporary structure that would be in contrast to the original purpose.

By: AL

AL — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:53:38 +0000

refreshing to see tangible ideas that engage the urban and programs that ultimately translates to architectural experience!

By: Learning from the slums (2/2): the rediscovery - Style of Design

Learning from the slums (2/2): the rediscovery - Style of Design — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:24:27 +0000

[...] Akihisa Hirata, Commercial building in Daikanyama, Tokyo. [...]

By: lee

lee — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:08:35 +0000

beautiful