Tag Archives: tokyo

Plug-In Architecture Underneath Tokyo Viaducts

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday May 13, 2010

When cities get crowded, inhabitants get amazingly effective in finding space to live, work, sell, and sleep. We’ve written a couple of articles about Hong Kong’s cage homes,…

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Tokyo’s Underground Dreamers

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday March 26, 2010

Metropolitan life can be close to a real survival. The daily struggle people in metropolitan areas around world have to undergo is one of the main themes in…

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Sushi-Like Capsule Hotel From Tokyo

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday December 24, 2009

Masaaki Hiromura and Takaaki Nakamura from Design Studio S, an agency based in Roppongi in Tokyo, made this proposal for a very exciting capsule hotel.…

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Book Review: Tokyo Blues

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Monday December 14, 2009

Helsinki-based photographer Nurri Kim recently released the first Do Projects book ‘Tokyo Blues’ in collaboration with former Tokyo-resident Adam Greenfield. The publication,…

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The Four 2016 Olympic Master Plans

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday October 2, 2009

The final decision about the organising city of the 2016 Olympic Games will be made tonight. 115 Voting members of the International Olympic Committee will come together in…

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Metabolist Masterpiece: Nakagin Capsule Tower

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Monday April 6, 2009

Kisho Kurokawa (1934-2007) was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement in 1959. The categories that the group in visioned…

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PACO: a Second Skin from Tokyo

By Joop de Boer | Published: Wednesday March 25, 2009

Japanese architects Jo Nagasaka and Schemata Architecture Office have designed the PACO. PACO is a complete house in a cube of three by three meters.
PACO…

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Power-Napping Around the World

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday January 9, 2009

How often did I fuck up a whole afternoon of working being unproductive due to immense tiredness? Drinking coffee is not the only solution. Taking a 30 to 40 minutes…

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