Northern Lights

Was just up in Thessaloniki to install for the biennial, and here's some highlights (more on the biennial soon)on the way up the clouds were strangely phallic
we drove by an abandoned UFO,and arrived to see the magnifcent OTE tower by Takis Zenetos Dimitriadis

one of the coolest buildings in Greece, with a rotating cafeand very nicely facetted concrete underbellyamazing exterior staircase
and fantastic views of the city. Each rotation takes about 1h30 so with a long drink you see the whole town (from a safe distance).Next to the Zenetos building another weird Mirror SpaceFrame type of thing, that I have no idea who designed. Any thoughts?

detail shot

and another interesting and slightly sci-fi facade from downtown
inside the State Museum, a very nice chair, part of the Alexander Iolas collection
the very 60's officer's club. Then on the way back, a stop at the Tembi riverand a cute 50's church

Some Swiss Styles

The "I'm a weird faux-metobolistic thing you never expected to see on this street"
and I look good from the side too
The "I'm a Bank but I want to be cool too"

The "I'm just a cheap hotel with flags and I'm pretenting to be international"
The "I could be in Dubai too"
and the "I'm not an interesting building but I have cool shop windows on the ground floor".

Tokyo Tops

It seems there's always something interesting on top of Tokyo buildingsa wacky, cracked sphere
some classic Brutalism always does it for me
umm, a dog that wants to go uo to a Venus de Milo?
this billboard in Roppongi looked brilliantly white in the dusty pink sunset
a corporate flying saucer cafeteria?
quarter circles make for a pretty postmodern skyline in Ginza
and French watches of course.
Billboards in Tokyo are almost always buildings themselves.

Another Day in Tokyo

a quick stop for just 1 second at the Margiela store

a Shin Takamatsu - looking building inEbisu,
but I dont know if it isA Flower building a wall with a tree A hole
Typical Tokyo in ShinjukuAngelo and Mai having a 2:22 moment
the view from Roppongi Hills Mori Tower

The Sea of Rice outside tokyo Angelo sleeping on the bullet train to Tsukuba,
Japans' largest research center
and later on lost in a sea of Salarymen
late night taxi outside a striped building in Shibuya

If you're in the Tokyo area tonight

...come by Tsukuba University around 18h00, I'll be speaking on recent projects.Lecture organized by prof. Kazz Watari, University of Tsukuba in collaboration with ArtFront Gallery.

Focus Tokyo

All the cliches about Tokyo are just true: The Architecture is orgasmic, and the buildings you've seen in magazines are all worth seeing live, especially H&deM's Prada Ayoama and Ito's Tods Omotesanto. but here a few random buildings and details I liked along the way


this is the only one I knew from the bunch, Kenzo Tange's Hanae Mori complex
the one on the right looks like a Tudor skyscraper, and why not?

and I was frustrated not to find the gold polo in my size at Tsumori Chisato, so I was seeing gold everywhere. and there's so much more than its possible to blog

A Black and White Moment

Today in Patras, it was a black and white moment, slightly summer island gothic deco with emphasis on twist.

Construction Site Color Scheme Pt II