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T O K Y O

Often as I walk through Tokyo, I ask myself what

used to stand in one spot or another before its current

occupant moved in. Usually, I am unable to recall the

answer. Something is lost, and something else is born; we all know that this is the

process through which the city continuously remakes

itself SAKIKO HIRANO

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the intense vitality of the

people who are caught in the

middle of cultural duty and

pressing notions of

modernity, or to put simply;

Tokyoites of the present

caught within the past and

the future

distortions of the shape of the space was done in hopes of revealing the myriad of cross p a t h s w h i c h a r e a v a i l a b l e t h r o u g h

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daily schedule

emphasis of the curvatures that opens up the space; this sense of potential energy, a need f o r m o b i l i t y f r o m T o k y o

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co-existence of vastly different

architectural styles

start the day to the east: everyday

overcrowded markets in machiya(s),

the Japanese merchant-house

topology, at Tsujiki

or to the west: upscale and high-rise

contemporary offices and department

stores of Ginza

contra of trade styles

Tsujiki, unlike Ginza, is packed with

people up against one another, trying

to get the best prices for their

groceries and auctioning of fish which

lasts only until noon. While in Ginza,

the fixed prices of international brands

await all day

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co-existence of vastly different

architectural styles

(turn around: left to right)

Tokyo National Museum Hyokeikan colonial influenced Meiji style

+people lining up for a hermès showcase

Honken eastern "emperor's crown style" Toyokan contemporary architectural style

+people picnicking/sketching

contra in different disciplines of

institutions and knowledge

(overleaf: left to right)

newly constructed Tokyo Metropolitan

Festival Hall at the Ueno Imperial Park,

the oldest urban park in Japan (1837)

Tokyo University of the Arts library

with "karakusagawara" roofing

overlooking the modish university

building

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co-existence of vastly different

residential styles

multiple unit blocks "apaato"

(apartments) surround the Sumida

River while the largest concentration of

the city’s hotels surround the railway

station.

contra in mode of transport Shinagawa was once a fishing district, with its boats that now remain still on the Sumida River, is now transformed to the second major railway hub in Tokyo with 24 platforms in the main Shinagawa station alone. +6 million people per line annually have chosen to take the railway

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Thrill

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Shibuya is the place that everyone

flocks to. From salarymen to

schoolgirls, they come together under

the neon lights to unwind and have a

good time

contra in thrill of entertainment karaoke or kissaten (Japanese tea-rooms) high tech maid cafe or izakaya (Japanese drinking establishment) shop or manzai (classic Japanese stand-up comedy) ?

Who has not been seized by that feeling from time to time? Yet

in truth the city, like the humans who inhabit it, is a living being

that exists in a state of flux. Day by day tiny actions accumulates,

transforming the urban landscape

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