# Umeda Sky Building Laptop Sleeves

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Laptop sleeves with an internal padded zipper and interiors fully lined with faux fur, made from a material that’s resistant to water, oil, and heat, celebrating the Umeda Sky Building, Hiroshi Hara's high-rise masterpiece of Japanese "bubble era" Postmodern and High-Tech architecture that was completed in 1993. Two interlinked towers stacked with imagery of clouds, and the profiles of smaller architectures, like literal villages in the sky. Hara called the giant “crater” in the bridge between the two buildings—the famous Floating Garden Observatory (Kuchu Teien)—a “’vestige’ remaining from where a spaceship had flown away”, a never to be used docking platform through the centre of which dramatically rise a pair of outdoor glass escalators, high above the city. When not reflective glass, its fragmented, collage-like curtain wall looks like it’s made from a whole collection of varied, flattened buildings. As was Hara’s intention (the original scheme was to be called “Sky City”) the project grows out of the Osaka skyline like a Calvino-esque imaginary extension of the city, levitating over Umeda as an impossibly odd reminder of a time that itself seems equally impossible when look...

- Price: GBP 31.5 - 35.5
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- Tags: archi, hiroshi hara, japan, laptop cases, laptop sleeves, osaka, Postmodern Architecture, skyscrapers, umeda sky building
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