A collection of gorgeous prints, apparel and products celebrating Hiroyuki Wakabayashi’s Tokyo masterpiece in Shibuya, Tokyo, a veritable spaceship of terrifying architectural delights from 1992
In the 1980s, Japan underwent an unprecedented economic and cultural transformation, driven by rapid industrial growth, real estate speculation, and a fascination with technology. Amid this atmosphere of excess and creativity, a generation of architects from Kyoto—notably Wakabayashi, Tadao Ando, and Shin Takamatsu—produced some of the world’s most distinctive and imaginative buildings. The period’s hyperreal aesthetic, mirrored in films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Blade Runner, blurred the boundaries between past and future, East and West, fantasy and reality. Wakabayashi’s Humax Pavilion in Shibuya epitomizes this mood: a darkly dramatic, ornamented structure that fuses technological futurism with historical allusion, embodying what he described as humanity’s instinct to look forward while yearning for the past. See our blogpost for the building HERE
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