Tokyo: Modernist Metropolis
There’s calm to be found amid chaos in the consumer-fuelled, architecturally spectacular Japanese capital, Tokyo.
On a first tour around Tokyo, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the thoughtfulness of the city’s architecture. Following the devastating 1923 earthquake and the Second World War bombings, Tokyo was substantially rebuilt in a style that relied heavily on modernist influences, and many Western architects were commissioned for significant public and residential projects. And although much of the work by luminaries Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier no longer survives – Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel, Aisaku Hayashi House and Arinobo Fukuhara House have all been...
Bellota-ful
Cheap, cheerful, cosy and chic, the new Peter Gordon tapas bar is the perfect place to dream of Spanish eyes.
Public Display of Collection
The display structures at the new Blumhardt Gallery are as much a work of design as the collections they hold.
High and Mighty
From industrial factory to dream apartment, this New York home led the charge for going upmarket in downtown.
I confess to being obsessed with rooftops. My husband and I chose our apartment in New York specifically because we retained sole rights to a private oasis on high. I must admit though that ours, replete with the half-orb barbeque and a blow-up kiddie pool, need bow its head in the face of architect Matthew Baird’s slickly conceived outdoor living space. Baird’s open fireplace and bench seating around a decked courtyard might just be the...