The amazing St. Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo, completed 1964, is the second portrait of japanese architecture. The architect Kenzo Tange designed a shape of eight hyperbolic parabolas to create a wonderful space of concrete and light in the style of brutalism.
The St. Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo and San Francisco are quite familiar in the language of architecture. Have a look to the photos of the buildings by Kenzo Tange and Pier Luigi Nervi.
A portrait of some unique buildings of Japan. The first one is the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo. Designed by the architect Kisho Kurokawa, built beginning 70s in the district Ginza. It is a symbol of the japanese postwar movement Metabolism. Each capsule is a complete apartment in the seize of about 10 square meter.
A set of photos you will in the gallery for the Nakagin Capsule Tower.
The countdown for Christmas shopping is running. But DON’T PANIC, the perfect Christmas gift is ready for shipping: The DON’T PANIC Towel
‘A Towel – Just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry.’*
For all hitchhiker’s and fans of Douglas Adams, the author of the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ we have the right companion for your life, the Universe and Everything. A beautiful bath towel, with the smart advice: DON’T PANIC.
Of course, you can use it just right after you have taken a shower or bath, but there are a lot of more things to do with a lovely towel:
‘Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough’*
Here you can get it: DON’T PANIC Towel Shop
Shipping worldwide – Even Lenin got one.
* Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, chapter 3
Der DON'T PANIC Towel Shop verkauft ausschliesslich ein Produkt, ein Handtuch zu Ehren von Douglas Adams und seinem Buch: Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis.
