Posts Tagged ‘green’
22
Dec
Posted by palmsundae in Community, Global cities, Urban food, Walking and transit, biodiversity, small streets, trees. Tagged: bird, bird-watcher, city, clean, flock, green, habitat, Hiroo, hobby, landscape, leaf, ocean, orange, outdoor, parrot, persimmon, San Francisco, surfer, survive, urban, watchers, wild. 3 Comments
Walking on a small street in Hiroo, in central Tokyo, we heard a strange noise and saw some people staring at a persimmon tree. On closer examination, we saw that there was a flock of wild green parrots gathered in this tree. The green on orange colors perched on a leaf-less tree is sublime.
I have [...]
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10
Nov
Posted by palmsundae in Residences. Tagged: green curtain, green, balcony, garden, bonsai, Saipan, satoyama, 5bai Midori, 5x緑, pot, Kobayashi Kenji, 小林健二, Sinajina, ceramic, fruit, fall, view, pine, black, Mt Fuji, curtain, unit, Ojizō-sama, lemon, shelf, floor, November. Leave a Comment
With cooler nights, fall is definitely upon us. I took these photos in the first week of November to document the passing of the seasons on our balcony garden. Above a dramatic sunset over Mt Fuji illuminates the very end of the morning glory green curtain. As you can see in the photo below, there [...]
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9
Nov
Posted by palmsundae in Corporations. Tagged: brand, competition, department, green, identity, indoor, living, Marui, merchandising, modular, OI0I, outdoor, passage, passer-by, Plant, plastic, retail, Shinjuku, shopper, store, subway, vertical, wall. 3 Comments
Several months ago Marui opened up another department store in Shinjuku san chome, along with at least three other existing ones and retail competition that includes Isetan’s flagship across the street. It is interesting that one of its defining design themes is green space. If you arrive by Tokyo Metro, you can see strips of [...]
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9
Oct
Posted by palmsundae in Walking and transit, trees. Tagged: brand, canopy, commerce, fashion, green, kayaki, keyaki, moss, oblivious, Omotesando, pattern, rain, shades, sidewalk, structure, Zelkova, 欅. Leave a Comment
Omotesando is known for its parade of imported brands: Dior, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, etc. It also has an amazing canopy of zelkova trees (called keyaki or 欅 in Japanese). This photo taken on a rainy day earlier this week shows the trees covered in moss. Looking up from the busy sidewalk, you see many shades [...]
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13
Sep
Posted by palmsundae in Global cities. Tagged: architect, Australia, automobile, city, dependency, family, green, high rise, park, privatized, Skyburb, steel, suburb, Sydney, Tzannes Associate, vertical. Leave a Comment
From Inhabitat (click for more images), I read about a design concept for high-rise suburban living called Skyburb. It’s designed by Sydney architects Tzannes Associates to provide flexible, modular, and park-like vertical spaces in densely built areas. I am a bit skeptical about the idea of “introducing qualities of the suburbs into denser urban environments” [...]
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12
Aug
Posted by palmsundae in Urban food, Visionary, small business. Tagged: agricultural, Diane Cook, field, Ginza, green, Hakutsuru, Len Jenshel, National Geographic, nihonshu, rice, rooftop, sake, urban. Leave a Comment
This amazing photograph of Hakutsuru Sake rooftop rice field in Ginza comes from photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, and appeared as part of National Geographic’s global green rooftop photo essay.
This is the third urban agricultural project in Ginza, in addition to the Ginza Honey Bee Project and the Ginza Farm.
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29
Jul
Posted by palmsundae in Residences, Walking and transit, small business. Tagged: Allen Ginsberg, beauty, bonsai, Bonsai Museum, Britton, ceramic, designer, Edogawa-ku, green, groom, Howl, Jiyūgaoka, Kobayashi Kenji, landscape architect, magic, maple, modern, moss, plants, Portland, saikei, Setagaya-ku, Sinajina, stones, traditional, 品品, 小林健二. 2 Comments
Yesterday I had the amazing fortune to meet Kobayashi Kenji (小林健二) at Sinajina (品品) in Jiyūgaoka, Setagaya-ku. Recognized as a leading Japanese green designer and bonsai innovator, Kobayashi-sensei has a vision for bring an appreciation of nature through caring for plants to a wide audience.
By making plants into attractive small objects, Kobayashi-sensei has succeeded in [...]
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20
May
Posted by palmsundae in Corporations, heat island effect. Tagged: destroying, developer, Dr Kennichi Ijiri, earthquake, environment, fire, global, green, green wall, heat island, high-rises, Mohri Garden, Mori Building, Mori Minoru, neighborhood, parks, public relations, rainfall capture, real estate, Residences, rice, roof, Roppongi Hill, safety, Space Medaka, Tokyo University, urban life, Urban New Deal Policy, vegetable, Vertical Garden City, wastewater recycling. 2 Comments
Mori Minoru’s Mori Building is Tokyo’s largest urban real estate developer. His Vertical Garden City idea and Urban New Deal Policy are private enterprise visions for a re-made city that is at once more densely populated, more environmental and green, and more profitable for the largest developers.
I had the intriguing experience of being invited to [...]
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16
Apr
Posted by palmsundae in Residences. Tagged: activist, balcony, exuberance, green, Harajuko, new media, overflowing, temporal, wisteria. Leave a Comment
Leaving the JR Harajuko station on the way to a meeting with a green new media activist, I looked up at a concrete residential tower and saw this splendid wisteria flower explosion ten floors off the grounds. Many of the balconies have no plants, or just an odd plant or two. What amazes me about [...]
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