Bouncing Red Ball

A while ago Bouncing Red Ball featured twenty of the narrowest houses and buildings in Japan which drew a lot of responses from people who are probably used to living in mansions with wide open views.
Incidentally, a “mansion” in Japan is usually a cramped communal housing complex, not the grand dwelling that it is known [...]

If apocalyptic future will come through nuclear weapons, then only Japan (brought to its knees with two atomic bombs in the closing stages of World War II) has a first-hand experience of what it will look like.
Here Tokyo Genso (Tokyo Fantasy) gives us his images of Japan in a catastrophic future, with buildings in ruins [...]

Designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, the Tokyo International Forum (東京国際フォーラム) is an exhibition and concert hall and conference center in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Shaped like an elongated boat, its dramatic atrium features a graceful mesh of arched steel beams and glass walls.
This ultra-modern building located between Tokyo and Yurakucho Stations on the Yamanote Line is one [...]

One of the most curious buildings in Japan is the Gate Tower Building in Umeda, Osaka, which is also dubbed “The Beehive”. If you see the building’s floor information board on the ground floor, you’ll notice that the 5th, 6th and 7th floors are occupied by the Hanshin Expressway.
And if you didn’t look up and [...]

The so-called G-Cans project or the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel is a drainage system in Saitama near Tokyo which was constructed to prevent floods around the metropolis during the rainy and typhoon season.
The subterranean infrastructure (video) is a combination of five huge silos that collect flood water above, 10-meter thick tunnels running 50 [...]

Lately, I’m having a “factory fetish”, (or “kōjō moe” as they say in Japanese) after browsing through some fascinating pictures of factories in flickr, especially those of sielbleu, hanazuc, totoon and beef.200%. The photographers kindly let me reproduce their photos here.
There is something fascinating about factories at night: the surreal colors, the dazzling lights, smoke [...]

Thin buildings–in Japan, where real estate is prohibitively expensive, there are lots of them. You’ve probably seen one of these: quaintly slender buildings sandwiched between two large ones; sharp, pointed corner structures hugging every available space. Even apartments in which (we assume) tenants aren’t allowed to get too fat are not an uncommon sight.
So if [...]