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Billboard / +S/Shintaro Matsushita+Takashi Suzuki + knit/Naohito Ikuta

Diego Hernández — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 03:00:50 +0000

Typical suburban cities are a completely car-based society. Various buildings including mega-shopping malls, amusement facilities, DIY stores, electronics retail stores and restaurants are lined up along arterial roads, with huge billboards displayed on top. Such scenery evokes the image of a webpage on a computer display, filled with glitzy banners all over. Many people exist there, but we don’t feel their presence. Urban space along roadsides in outlying cities is now transformed into a two-dimensional interface.

SEPA / +S/Shintaro Matsushita+Takashi Suzuki

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 23:00:58 +0000

There is a preface to the story of this house. Prior to purchasing the present site, our client had been considering a different site with very unique features: there were two small lots (50m2 and 20m2 respectively) with an off-limit zone with a steel tower in the middle, and the two lots were to be sold as a set. Although the client decided against purchasing in the end, he had been very impressed with the separate block scheme we proposed there, and this “illusionary house” was vividly embedded in his memory.

Kadokeshi / +S/Shintaro Matsushita+Takashi Suzuki

Javier Gaete — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The high-density business district in Tokyo where a skyscraper and collective housing are built. The site is also overlooked by the apartment of 10 floors and is under the severe condition that the building of 7 floors takes up south. However, it was likely to be responded to positively that it is a corner lot along which the road of 6M passes along east and the road (it may be better for this to call it an alley) of 3M passes north.