Showing posts with label Arata Isozaki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arata Isozaki. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Nagi Moca, "Moon"
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Arata Isozaki,
Museum,
nagi,
okayama
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Nagi Moca "Earth"
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aiko miyawaki,
Arata Isozaki,
Architecture,
art,
Museum,
nagi,
okayama
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Vacation 2011: day 1, Yahata
For this years vacation I flew out of Fukuoka airport so was able to spend the day exploring a bit of Kitakyushu before my flight. First I headed to an area I had not been to before, Yahata.
I wanted to see the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art as it was designed by Arata Isozaki. Later I will do a complete post on it.
From the hill on which the museum is located there are great views over Yahata!!!
Yahata is dominated by a big amusement park, Spaceworld, built around the theme of space. Most visitors to Yahata will be heading there and it even has its own JR station.
Next to Spaceworld is the small Kitakyushu Environment Museum which focuses on the environmental problems created by the areas industrialization and the steps taken to combat pollution both locally and globally. The building itself utilizes various sustainable technologies and while the displays have no english information its worth a visit at 100yen.
Next door is the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History which was surprisingly good and large. The main hall has dozens of dinosaur skeletons and there are some quite good historical displays too.
The first steel works in japan were built in Kitakyushu and the first blast furnace, opened in 1901, has been preserved as an open air museum. Its located right next to Spaceworld station.
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Arata Isozaki,
kitakyushu,
kyushu,
Museum
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Nagi MOCA
Nagi is a small town in northern Okayama with a population of around 6,000 people, yet is home to a large Museum of Contemporary Art.
When we visited it there was an exhibition that featured a variety of artists, and the piece I enjoyed the most was by an Okayama artist, Gen Okabe, featuring a large "tunnel" constructed out of tree limbs. I saw a piece of his many years ago up in Kansai.
The occasional exhibits of modern art are not what this museum is primarily about. The museum is a collaboration between renowned architect Arata Isozaki and 4 artists who were asked to create artworks that would not be able to be displayed in a normal museum or gallery.
Opened in 1994, the three artwork/architecture pieces are titled Sun, Moon, and Earth, and are interesting enough that I will do a post on each one later.
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Arata Isozaki,
Museum,
okayama
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Kitakyushu International Conference Center
The Kitakyushu International Conference Center is located in the old port area a 10 minute walk from Kokura train station.
It was opened in 1990 and was designed by Arata Isozaki.
Isozaki was born not far from Kokura in Oita, and at 78 years old is the current grand master of Japanese architecture with prestigous building all over the world.
This is not one of his better known buildings, but I found interesting enough with its combination of curves and angles.
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Arata Isozaki,
Architecture,
kokura,
kyushu
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