Oh I loved the museums when I visited Naoshima! But this one is kind of different. Is this some kind of brutalist architecture?? Looking forward to more exploring!!
Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Seto Inland Sea. The museum, which resembles a water droplet at the moment of landing, is located in the corner of a rice terrace that was restored in collaboration with local residents. Structurally, the building consists of a concrete shell, devoid of pillars, coving a space about 40 by 60 meters and with a maximum height of 4.3 meters. Two oval openings in the shell allow wind, sounds, and light of the world outside into this organic space where nature and architecture intimately interconnect. In the interior space, water continuously springs from the ground in a day-long motion. This setting, in which nature, art and architecture come together with such limitless harmony, conjures an infinite array of impressions with the passage of seasons and the flow of time.
Isn't it a hibiscus...?Nice one, @johnnyG! I saw many of these on my ride today and wondered what their name was.
Probably. It's a generic name.I see on Google Maps there is an island called Oshima Island next to Sada Peninsula. I have heard there are more than 40 islands named Oshima Island in Japan. Is it true?
I have a feeling that this event is for the photographers and not the models. Maybe a photo "club" hired the models so they could have a snapfest?And lowering the tone...
I went on a day trip to Enoshima yesterday and was amused to find myself walking past a photoshoot for glamour models! There were about five of them in bikinis and impractical footwear dotted around the beach and the local area, each of them surrounded by a few photographers, clicking away like mad.