Inside and outside of my creative life, I always find those valuable moments of time to draw and sketch the some of events, spaces and environments on my journeys... Sometimes I think about Robert Byron touring through regions of the Middle East in search of unique towers and monuments, and wonder about Bruce Chatwin venturing through the southern tip of South America and falling in love with Patagonia...Douglas Wittnebel...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Monday, July 29, 2019
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Shaved Ice at Snow Bro in Taipei
And sometimes I love to paint the scenery of the delicious food while I travel...
Shaved Ice in Taiwan is a wonderful treat in the hot melting summer months. Snow Bro is a very cool dessert place with lots of topping options for your shaved ice or snow ice... the service guys are quick and hip and the mango special is to die for... here are the two offerings we tried.
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Weijian, and the colorful metal roof tops of Taipei, a careful study of the views from above, looking down from the rooftop of the Shangrila Hotel...
Saturday, July 20, 2019
EV Toyota and dragonfly pattern “蜻蛉” or “勝虫”
Some time before the TeamLab exhibition viewing, I toured the Toyota exhibit with my daughter. We found a cool EV car! Reminds me of the classic Messerschmidt vehicle...
Detail view below
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
Window House on Sagami Bay, Hayama, Japan,
Window House
★ won the AP Award 2014
Completion: 2014
Architect: Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects
Structural Engineer: Akira Suzuki / A.S.A
Contractor: Tosho Kensetsu
A weekend house facing to the Sagami Bay with view to Mt. Fuji and Enoshima. The site is just 3 x 8m with 60% of footprint, and the building has become 3-stories almost automatically because the ground floor had to be a piloti by consideration of the storm surge. It seemed difficult to avoid blocking the view of the neighborhood behind. So I designed a large openings both at the sea-side and the road-side in order to keep the view passing through the building during the absence of the owner. And there is a view to the mountains at the road-side indeed. It stands between land and sea and became a house as a window to see through each other.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Starbucks Roastery in NakaMeguro Tokyo
Pretty impressive series of stacked levels wrapping around a copper Roastery volume.
Kengo Kuma was the design architect.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019
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Thursday, July 4, 2019
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
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