southern belle
dreaming about japan again, as always
when suddenly my brother sends me a link to this article
about the nakagin capsule tower in tokyo
which is set for demolition
a metabolist masterpiece,
as is habitat 67 in montreal,
nakagin was the world's first capsule hotel
so much for 1970s modular modernism
then my brain starts and shifts a bit
and i remember brian jungen's
habitat 04 — cité radieuse des chats / cats radiant city (2004)
at the fonderie darling in montreal
where he recreated habitat 67 with cardboard boxes
and installed orphaned cats
available for adoption
and then i miss my cats
hope you had a lovely flight
northern light
2 comments:
Ah, saw this building when i was in tokyo this past spring... was in fact hopeful that maybe it was still open and could stay there, before realizing it has been in deep disrepair for quite a long time. It's so fantastic.... and so devastating that it's to be demolished....have read some architectural critiques where people describe it as a pile of washing machines... but ah, what beautiful washing machines they are!!
it's exactly true! (and with everyone recycling shipping containers, maybe we need to reconsider the washing machine as a structural building block...?):)
sarah
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