Category: Architecture

The National Art Center, Tokyo is one of the newest museums in town, it opened three years ago. The temporary exhibitions are usually pretty good; however the museum is worth the visit simply to enjoy the interior architecture of the building. The National Art Center, Tokyo is located in Roppongi near Tokyo Midtown; you can find here a map in English.

One of the things that I like the most in the building is the cafeteria. One part of the cafeteria is on the top of a mug-shaped structure, and the rest of the cafeteria is below around the structure.

Mug-shaped cafeteria.

The handle is a small footbridge so that people can access the top of the mug.

Do you think that Sanyo’s only business is to build electronic devices? They also build houses! It still surprises me how many different things can big Japanese corporations do. Did you know that Sony sells life insurances or that Mitsubishi apart from cars also sells pencils? Is it better to diversify so much or is it better to focus in the main business line? Many Japanese companies decide to expand into a complete different sector inside the country before deciding to go abroad; just the opposite of what American companies do, that even being small what they first do is to expand internationally.

The sign says that, once finished, the house will be ecologic and secure.

We recorded the Aho aho zombies video in an abandoned hospital at the outskirts of Tokyo. The hospital is kind of like a Gunkanjima but on a smaller scale. It was interesting to see the machinery of an old operating room from the 60’s or the prehistoric electronics of the elevators. But the most interesting thing was that even though the place is completely abandoned, it is quite “clean” and you can notice certain order within the chaos. Almost all the walls in the hospital are painted with graffiti and you notice that the people that come here to paint graffiti try to keep the place as clean as possible; the building is turning into a unique piece of art. We were also surprised not to find any homeless people living inside the abandoned hospital, we only found pigeon nests.

Hospital facade.

One of the operating rooms!

Before the transformation

What a bunch of geek zombies!

And to finish, nothing better than watching again Aho aho zombies!