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That feeling when you have such a strong feeling for someone/thing but not enough words can express how you truly feel.

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Recently participated in the @architizer #onephotochallenge and the juries have selected my work titled "Kites" to be in the Top 10 Commended Entries in 2022. Didn't manage to win but this just tells me that I have to work twice as hard to refine my photography. Hope to win next year! 💪 Thank you everyone who have been following my work. I'll work hard to send new perspectives to your eyes.

Write up as follow:

Kites

“Photograph taken at the plaza of Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan designed by Ishigami Junya.
The photograph is titled Kites as the square openings on the thin metal roof distorts when viewed from above.
At different seasons of the year, the metal roof expands and contracts according to the changing temperature.
Thus, different shadows are casted on the plaza space below.

I intently waited until a passerby walk by underneath the roof in order to give the audience a notion of the sense of human scale as well as the feeling of vastness through architecture.
The negative white space is used as a metaphorical reference to the sky and the openings to be the kites floating in the wind.
Through this expression, the photograph intends to evoke a feeling of isolation and to question our existence as mankind and the vastness of the space we inhibit.”

【REPOST】
Recently participated in the @architizer #onephotochallenge and the juries have selected my work titled "Kites" to be in the Top 10 Commended Entries in 2022. Didn't manage to win but this just tells me that I have to work twice as hard to refine my photography. Hope to win next year! 💪 Thank you everyone who have been following my work. I'll work hard to send new perspectives to your eyes.

Write up as follow:

Kites

“Photograph taken at the plaza of Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan designed by Ishigami Junya.
The photograph is titled Kites as the square openings on the thin metal roof distorts when viewed from above.
At different seasons of the year, the metal roof expands and contracts according to the changing temperature.
Thus, different shadows are casted on the plaza space below.

I intently waited until a passerby walk by underneath the roof in order to give the audience a notion of the sense of human scale as well as the feeling of vastness through architecture.
The negative white space is used as a metaphorical reference to the sky and the openings to be the kites floating in the wind.
Through this expression, the photograph intends to evoke a feeling of isolation and to question our existence as mankind and the vastness of the space we inhibit.”

A children’s facility and observatory designed by Tadao Ando, sits quietly within the mountains of Himeji. The exposed concrete volumes with full-height openings frames the constantly changing landscape. Rising above the trees, the tower becomes a sort of landmark around the area, while transforming into an observatory for stargazing at night.

安藤忠雄によって設計された「姫路市宿泊型児童館 星の子館」は、姫路の山々の中に静かに佇む児童館兼天文施設です。全面高さの開口部をもつ打放しコンクリートの建築が、移り変わる風景を丁寧に切り取り、周囲の自然を空間へと取り込んでいます。木々の上へと立ち上がる塔は、この地域のランドマークのような存在となっており、夜には星空を観測するための展望台へと姿を変えていきます。

Fukui Prefectural Library designed by Fumihiko Maki is conceived as a “garden library” within the rural landscape of Fukui, surrounded by rice fields and distant mountains. The building’s low horizontal form and expansive glass facades draw the changing scenery deep into the interior, allowing light, landscape, and seasons to become part of the reading experience. Rather than dominating the site, the architecture sits quietly within the countryside.

福井の田園風景の中に佇む、槇文彦 による「庭園のような図書館」 福井県立図書館。低く水平に広がる建築と大きなガラス面が、移り変わる光や四季の風景を内部へと取り込み、読書空間そのものを風景の一部として成立させています。建築が強く主張するのではなく、静かに田園風景の中へ溶け込むように佇んでいました。

Recently managed to visit the inside of the Tower of the Sun.
Couldn’t make it the first time because the reservation slots were full, so I made sure to come back and make time for it this round.
Honestly the inside feels like another world. Totally different from what you would expect just looking at the exterior. Still feels quite surreal thinking about it.Built for Expo ‘70 by Tarō Okamoto in the 70s, but it still feels so refreshing even in 2026.

最近、太陽の塔の内部にやっと入ることができました。

前に来たときは予約が埋まっていて行けなかったので、今回はしっかり時間を作ってリベンジしました。

正直、中はまるで別の世界のようでした。外からは全く想像できない空間で、不思議でありながらとても印象に残りました。

大阪万博のために岡本太郎さんが作られたもので、70年代のものにもかかわらず、2026年の今でもとても新鮮に感じます。

I missed the bus so I had to take a cab. Luckily there is still uber in the countryside. Travelling in the countryside is difficult without a car…

バスに乗り遅れてしまったので、タクシーに乗りました。幸いなことに、田舎でもまだUberが使えました。車がないと、田舎での移動は本当に大変ですね…

Recently visited KYOTOGRAPHIE, one of Kyoto’s largest photography festivals.
What makes it special isn’t just the exhibitions, but the spaces themselves where many of these venues aren’t usually open to the public.

The juxtaposition of contemporary art within traditional Japanese architecture creates a quiet, almost ephemeral atmosphere.
It feels less like viewing art, and more like immersing in it.

List of galleries I visited:
• Yuhisai Koudoukan
• SHIMADAI Gallery Kyoto
• The Museum of Kyoto – Annex
• Kurochiku Hachiku-an (Former Kawasaki Family House)
• Kondaya Genbei – Takein no Ma
• Asphodel

KYOTOGRAPHIE
4.18 — 5.17

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最近、京都で開催されているKYOTOGRAPHIEに行ってきました。
写真と映像を中心とした大規模なフェスティバルで、普段は一般公開されていない空間に入れるのも魅力の一つです。

伝統的な日本建築と現代アートの対比が、静かでどこか儚い空気感を生み出していました。
作品を見るというより、空間の中を歩いて体験するような感覚でした。

訪れたギャラリー:
• 有斐斎弘道館
• 嶋臺ギャラリー
• 京都文化博物館別館
• 八竹庵（旧川崎家住宅）
• 誉田屋源兵衛 竹院の間
• Asphodel

KYOTOGRAPHIE
4.18 — 5.17

Built at the peak of Yashima, the architecture unfolds less like a building and more like a fluid landscape.

A 200m-long, continuously curving corridor traces the terrain. With the glass facade blurring the boundaries between interior and the landscape. The architecture doesn’t sit on the mountain; it flows with it, translating topography into spatial experience.
Walls, floors, and roof bend in varying curves, creating a seamless, almost geological continuity. Even the structure pushes precision to its limits, with steel beams calibrated to support these complex curves.
The space holds galleries and also vantage points where movement, landscape, and architecture are intertwined. A quiet reminder that the most compelling forms don’t dominate nature, but rather integrate with it.

屋島の山頂に建つこの建築は、ひとつの建物というよりも、流れるランドスケープのように展開していく。

全長約200mの連続する曲線の回廊が地形に沿って伸び、ガラスファサードによって内外の境界は曖昧に溶け合う。建築は山の上に「置かれる」のではなく、地形と呼応しながら一体となり、空間体験へと昇華されている。
壁・床・屋根はそれぞれ異なる曲率で連続し、まるで地層のような一体感を生み出す。その複雑な曲線を成立させるため、構造体である鉄骨にも高い精度が求められている。内部にはギャラリー機能と展望の場が織り込まれ、動線・風景・建築が一体となる空間が広がる。自然を支配するのではなく、調和し、取り込んでいく——そんな建築の在り方を静かに示している。

Managed to catch the exhibition by Maki & Associates at Blue Front Shibaura.
Free entry! Do take a look!

Maki and Associates
BLUE FRONT SHIBAURA

Vernacular Humanism
槇総合計画事務所60年展
2026年3月10日 — 4月5日

人と社会と建築と。

My friend’s name is on the credits!
@shannn.heng

Naoshima is such a beautiful place..
I want to go back again someday.

直島は本当に美しい場所ですね…
また行きたい

Naoshima is such a beautiful place..
I want to go back again someday.

直島は本当に美しい場所ですね…
また行きたい

Naoshima is such a beautiful place..
I want to go back again someday.

直島は本当に美しい場所ですね…
また行きたい

Naoshima is such a beautiful place..
I want to go back again someday.

直島は本当に美しい場所ですね…
また行きたい

Naoshima is such a beautiful place..
I want to go back again someday.

直島は本当に美しい場所ですね…
また行きたい

Naoshima is such a beautiful place..
I want to go back again someday.

直島は本当に美しい場所ですね…
また行きたい

Naoshima is such a beautiful place..
I want to go back again someday.

直島は本当に美しい場所ですね…
また行きたい

Naoshima is such a beautiful place..
I want to go back again someday.

直島は本当に美しい場所ですね…
また行きたい

Had the opportunity to visit three chalets managed by NISADE × The Luxe Nomad.

Tsubasa and Corniche were designed by architect Riccardo Tossani together with Atsuko Itoda Tossani, co-founder and chief interior architect of the practice, while Meigetsu Aki Niseko was designed by Nomura Design.

What really captivated me was the level of thought embedded in the detailing across both the architecture and interiors. The joinery, along with the material palette, is carefully considered, allowing everything to resolve into a cohesive whole.

Tsubasa and Corniche each feature an outdoor onsen, where you can soak while overlooking the vast snowy landscape in winter.

Featured chalets are as follows:
① Tsubasa at Hanaridge
@tsubasa_hanaridge11
Design: Riccardo Tossani Architecture

② Meigetsu Aki Niseko
@meigetsu.niseko
Architecture: Land Architects
Interior: NOMURA Co., Ltd.

③ Corniche Hirafu
@cornichehirafu
Design: Riccardo Tossani Architecture

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NISADE × The Luxe Nomadが手がける3つの別荘を訪れる機会がありました。

TsubasaとCornicheは、建築家リカルド・トッサーニと、共同創業者でありチーフインテリアアーキテクトのアツコ・イトダ・トッサーニによる設計。Meigetsu Aki Nisekoは乃村工藝社によるものです。

建築とインテリアの双方において、ディテールに込められた思考の深さが特に印象的でした。素材同士の納まりやマテリアルの選定が丁寧に検討されており、全体が一体的に解かれています。

TsubasaとCornicheには屋外温泉が備えられており、冬には広がる雪景色を眺めながら湯に浸かることができます。

掲載した別荘：
① Tsubasa at Hanaridge
@tsubasa_hanaridge11
設計：Riccardo Tossani Architecture

② Meigetsu
@meigetsu.niseko
設計：Land Architects
内装：乃村工藝社

③ Corniche Hirafu
@cornichehirafu
設計：Riccardo Tossani Architecture

A public library integrated with a beautifully crafted museum.

美しく作り込まれた美術館と一体となった公共図書館。