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“Emptiness is sometimes confused with Simplicity.” Everyone should read Designing Design
/via Duncan
Tha designed a monument for the entrance of Seibu Ikebukuro Flagship Store, called “Hikari No Tokei” (Clock of Light).
Wanting to reduce the impact of the towers KDa decided to use camouflage, but the difficulty was that the natural environment surrounding the resort changes constantly with the seasons. KDa’s solution was to camouflage one tower to suit winter conditions and the other to suit summer - one tower fades from black to white, and the other from green to white. While KDa wanted to dissolve the building’s mass, they didn’t want invisibility and so inserted a few red panels to liven things up. Their inspiration was the cheerful red baubles on a Christmas tree - rather than being around for just one day a year, the red panels create smiles year round.
‘Sensing Nature‘, an exhibition which rethinks the Japanese perception of nature, has just opened at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Want to go back to Japan
KASHIWA SATO ||| 佐藤可士和 - containing pretty stuff for Uniqlo.
