Imanishi Motoakasaka Collection

A collection of gorgeous products celebrating the gem of Shin Takamatsu's Tokyo projects, the wonderfully, terrifyingly arachnoid Imanishi Motoakasaka office building from 1991

Rising from the Tokyo pavement like a spinning, grinding, hissing engine block frozen in time, Imanishi Motoakasaka is a cold, metallic roar from the height of Japan’s booming economic delirium. It is an exercise in architectural intensity, dominated by a towering, semi-cylindrical core that resembles the cooling vent of a nuclear reactor or the barrel of a futuristic railgun.

Takamatsu strips away the quotidian expectations and comforts of the city, replacing them with a rhythmic sequence of claw-like polished steel ribs and aggressively protruding mechanical apertures. It is a brooding, techno-militaristic monolith—a structure that doesn't merely occupy space, but consumes it with a dark, cinematic intensity. In the hyper-saturated landscape of the Japanese Bubble era (the hyperreal end of Japan's long economic miracle), this was architecture at its most uncompromising: a shimmering, robotic sentinel guarding a future that it was clearly ambivalent about, and which was in fact already starting to fade.

See our blogpost on Japanese Postmodern Architecture

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Imanishi Motoakasaka Collection

A collection of gorgeous products celebrating the gem of Shin Takamatsu's Tokyo projects, the wonderfully, terrifyingly arachnoid Imanishi Motoakasaka office building from 1991

Rising from the Tokyo pavement like a spinning, grinding, hissing engine block frozen in time, Imanishi Motoakasaka is a cold, metallic roar from the height of Japan’s booming economic delirium. It is an exercise in architectural intensity, dominated by a towering, semi-cylindrical core that resembles the cooling vent of a nuclear reactor or the barrel of a futuristic railgun.

Takamatsu strips away the quotidian expectations and comforts of the city, replacing them with a rhythmic sequence of claw-like polished steel ribs and aggressively protruding mechanical apertures. It is a brooding, techno-militaristic monolith—a structure that doesn't merely occupy space, but consumes it with a dark, cinematic intensity. In the hyper-saturated landscape of the Japanese Bubble era (the hyperreal end of Japan's long economic miracle), this was architecture at its most uncompromising: a shimmering, robotic sentinel guarding a future that it was clearly ambivalent about, and which was in fact already starting to fade.

See our blogpost on Japanese Postmodern Architecture

For our Shin Takamatsu products organised by buildings click HERE

For all our buildings in Japan click HERE

For all our Postmodern buildings click HERE

For all our buildings click HERE

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