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Vladimir Belogolovsky in conversation with Tokyo architect Toyo Ito.

Why Tokyos elite are staging a backlash against the Olympics The pandemic has thrown plans into disarray, but the citys movers and shakers are reluctant to celebrate the games 24 July 2021 • 5:00am The opening ceremony finally got underway this week, after a year of delays and re-arranging Shigeru Kaneko pauses from tidying the coffee shop he has run for 45 years and recalls a favourite childhood memory: the moment he watched the jubilant opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. “I w...

4 Remote Vacation Spots to Unplug and Recharge Nature-focused destinations connect guests to the land and the sea Words by: HD Staff • Photos by Giorgio Baroni, Avesh Gaur, Nacasa & Partners, and Noughts and Crosses The design team behind Italys Terme di Saturnia derived the interior color palette from the turquoise hue of the natural pool The design team behind Italys Terme di Saturnia derived the interior color palette from the turquoise hue of the natural pool Projects: Nature-focu...

© Nacasa & Partners A new footbridge forms a subtle link and between the two complexes a new path meanders through the lush forest. And like ina fairy tale, halfway there is a wood clearing with a contemporary cottage: PokoPoko. Like an icon, from afar 3 roof conespoke out lightheartedly in different directions from the top of the trees. And this is where the building get’s it name from as‘poko poko’ means to stick-out or stick-up in Japanese. © Nacasa & Partners The newly built PokoPok...

Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has designed PokoPoko as a clubhouse and activity centre surrounded by forest for the Risonare Nasu hotel in rural Japan. Built near the town of Nasu in the shadow of the Mount Nasu volcanoes, the clubhouse is set within a forest clearing between the hotels two existing accommodation blocks. The PokoPoko clubhouse is part of the Risonare Nasu hotel "The concept of the project was to create a fairytale building in a clearing of the forest," said Klein Dy...

Press Release – NZ Maritime Museum In keeping with the fast pace of current America’s Cup racing, the New Zealand Maritime Museum is staging its own PechaKucha America’s Cup-themed evening entitled It Takes a Village on the 3rd of March. Creatives and experts line up to each riff—in under seven minutes and referring to only 20 slides—on the many and intricate elements of America’s Cup racing and campaigns, from the design of the technologically advanced 1851-schooner America, to t...

It Takes a Village on the 3rd of March. Creatives and experts line up to each riff—in under seven minutes and referring to only 20 slides—on the many and intricate elements of America’s Cup racing and campaigns, from the design of the technologically advanced 1851-schooner America, to the art of photographing the foiling challengers and defender on the Waitematā Harbour in 2020-21. Yacht-designer, America’s Cup Hall of Fame inductee, and according to the lippy and starry Cup-veteran De...