#hiroyuki hirai

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[fotos-art]

All images courtesy of TASCHEN

Mount Fuji World Heritage Center (2017), Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, Japan. Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai.

Haesley Hamlet (2020), Gyeonggi, South Korea. Photo by texture on texture

Japan Pavilion (2000), Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany. Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai

Nomadic Museum, Pier 54, New York, United States (2005); Santa Monica, California, United States (2006); Tokyo, Japan (2007). Photo by Michael Moran

Simose (2023), Otake, Hiroshima, Japan. Photo © TASCHEN

Centre Pompidou-Metz (2010), Metz, France. Photo by Didier Boy de la Tour

Cardboard Cathedral (2013), Christchurch, New Zealand. Photo by Steven Goodenough

Kur Park Nagayu (2019), Oita, Japan. Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai

Swatch/Omega Campus (2019), Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Photo courtesy of Swatch

La Seine Musicale (2017), Île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Photo by Didier Boy de la Tour

# COLOSSAL # TASCHEN # Hiroyuki Hirai # Haesley Hamlet # Michael Moran # Didier Boy # Steven Goodenough # Swatch # artist photographie # fotos art # xpuigc

[ofhouses]

1152. Waro Kishi /// Kim House /// Ikuno Ward, Osaka, Japan /// 1986-87

OfHouses presents: Japanese Fields OfHouses, part VIII. (Photos: © Hiroyuki Hirai. Source: ‘Jutakutokushu’ 08/2012; ‘Quaderns’ 202, 09-10/1993; ‘2G’ 19/2001; ‘El Croquis’ 77 (II)/1996; Waro Kishi + K. Associates/Architects Archive.) — This project will be published in our upcoming book: ’Japanese Fields | OfHouses.’

[juliaknz]

WARO KISHI HOUSE IN KAMIGYO, 1990 Kyoto, Japan Image © Hiroyuki Hirai

[nintendocompositions]

WHO ELSE HAS BEEN HYPE FOR THE MVC COLLECTION ON SWITCH?! I've been hyperfocusing on this high energy fighting game house nonstop music mix for the past four days and I'm SUPER excited to share this with everyone! no matter your play level these tracks will get you MOVING!!

anyway, this is a track from the mix now on soundcloud and youtube!!

https://on.soundcloud.com/hfJFU1GMtixHPmGK8

[myanhedonia]

Farmer's Restaurant by Shigeru Ban Architects Photography by Hiroyuki Hirai

[youngfcs]

hi cib !!! how are you ? i was wondering if you could offer me some fcs for an older sister and grandparents for momona tamada (who plays claudia kishi in the new-ish babysitters club series) ? thanks !! have a great day !!

Hello there! I'm doing fine, how about you? hope you're fine! Of course! She's of Japanese descent, so I'll try to give options with that heritage as well :)

Sister:

Anna Suda (17-25)

Hina Yoshihara (15-21)

Lyrica Okano (19-28)

Nana Komatsu (18-27)

Hirai Momo (18-26)

Grandmother:

Tamlyn Tomita (50-58)

Guin Poon Chaw (62-70)

Yoshiko Mita (73-81)

Mieko Harada (56-64)

Miyoko Asada (60-67)

Grandfather:

Jun Kunimura (60-67)

Eiji Okuda (65-73)

Kōji Ishizaka (73-81)

Hiroyuki Sanada (56-63)

Takeshi Masu (60-67)

(cib)

[subtilitas]

Toshiaki Ishida - Mountain house, Susono 1991. Photos (C) Hiroyuki Hirai.

[realismoutopico]

Shigeru Ban / Naked House / 2000 / via Arquitectura Viva / Archeyes / Architectuul / Image © Hiroyuki Hirai

[parametricarchitecture]

Designed by architect Shigeru Ban, the Mount Fuji World Heritage Center is a museum and a visitor center in the city of Fujinomiya, central Japan. The building of the center is shaped like an inverted mountain. Opened in 2017, the center is aimed to present the significance of nearby Mount Fuji for Japanese people and culture. The 3,776-meter / 12,388-foot mountain, together with its natural landscape crossed by many hiking trails, is a popular travel and pilgrimage destination as well as a recurrent subject in Japanese art and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2013. Location: Fujinomiya, Japan / 2017 Photos by: Hiroyuki Hirai #shigeruban #shigerubanarchitects #museum #museums #museumdesign #japan #fujinomiya #wood #wooden #woodworking #timber #architecturestudents #digitaldesign #design #designer #parametric #grasshopper3d #rhinoceros3d #parametricarchitecture #parametricdesign #3dmodeling #architecture #architect #computationaldesign #computation #computational #architecturephotography #architecturephoto (at Fujinomiya, Shizuoka) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHpur7RBu8S/?igshid=5vi73t29behr

[demifiendrsa]

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The staff for the AnimeJapan 2020 event announced that the event will host a stage presentation titled "Bleach 20th Anniversary Project & Tite Kubo New Work Presentation" on March 21, 2020.

Voice actors Masakazu Morita and Ryotaro Okiayu, Weekly Shonen Jump editor-in-chief Hiroyuki Nakano, and America Zarigani comedy duo member Yoshiyuki Hirai will appear at the stage presentation.

[kazu721010]

SYNEGIC office / uenoa Photos © Hiroyuki Hirai

[gunnerpalace]

Final Thoughts on the 20th Anniversary Project

So, the scheduled time for the "BLEACH 20th Anniversary Project & Tite Kubo New [Project] Presentation" is at 9:45 to 10:15 AM on March 21st (a Saturday). In attendance will be the VAs for Ichigo, Rukia, and Byakuya, the Editor-in-Chief for WSJ (Hiroyuki Nakano), and Yoshiyuki Hirai of the comedy duo America Zarigani as moderator. (Is this another dig at Bleach as a “gag series”?) This information is also available on the main site:

(Interesting how Ichigo, Rukia, and Byakuya are the “main cast of the anime,” isn’t it? Gee, I was told that Bleach had some other girl as the “heroine”... And they sure as hell aren’t the focus of TYBW...)

I think that you wouldn’t launch a multi-season anime return as part of a mere (two-part!) 30-minute presentation early in the morning on Saturday, first thing on the first day of the venue, in the secondary venue. See, the Blue Bird Stage announcements aren’t as minor as the Wind Green and Moon Yellow ones, but they’re also not as big as the Flower Red ones. It’s also interesting that many of the other Blue Bird Stage announcements are explicitly listed as “TV anime” reveals in the main site’s program guide and Bleach... ain’t. It strikes me as more of a small-fry time-slot for a small-fry announcement.

I also don’t think you’d do that with no hype (as Bleach is not prominent at all in Anime Japan 2020′s marketing outside of this event) in the year of the 2020 Olympics, an essentially once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hype things up. I also don’t think that you would do it under the title of “Face Again,” the name of the 20th chapter of a 686 chapter manga. I also don’t think you’d do it with merch from the pre-timeskip era of your series on the horizon.

None of that makes the slightest bit of sense to me as a series of business decisions. I would fire anyone running that kind of marketing campaign without a second thought.

I have been vocal in my belief that it is probably something relatively minor, like an OVA special, and all of these things leave me all the more convinced of that.

I’m on record as having said that I don’t think TYBW is in the slightest bit commercially viable given its abysmal readership rankings. I have been over that already.

I’m also on the record as having said that if TYBW is animated, it will show once and for all what an atrocious arc it was, what with its incredibly diffuse focus on the main cast, its bloated cast in general, its terrible pacing, its unsatisfying resolution of plot points, and its frankly fucking awful fights that have no real payoff. Like, forget how it ended: TYBW was a dumpster fire throughout, period. It was the worst of Bleach in every regard, and if you liked it, then in my opinion you have poor taste in Bleach arcs, shounen, anime, and media in general, because it was straight-up bad. Like, Daredevil (2003) bad. The Punisher (2004) bad. The Predator bad. But I have also been over that already.

(Although as an aside I would like to briefly add that CFYOW somehow even further undercuts TYBW’s “dramatic stakes” because it reveals very few people died and it in fact brings back a bunch more characters from the HM arc too, so it all feels somewhere between Ginjou “dying” only to not actually be dead, and Kishimoto only killing Neji out of everyone in the Fourth Shinobi World War: it retroactively completely ruins the tension. That combined with the further power creep makes TYBW even dumber than it is merely unto itself as a standalone arc. Simple example: what was Tokinada going to do if Yhwach had succeeded? One can ask the same of Yhwach if Aizen had succeeded. Ain’t none a this shit with these assholes waiting in queue behind each other make sense.)

I stand by each and every one of those positions. 

But finally, I want to go on record as saying I do not give a single fuck if it turns out that I am wrong.

Listen.

America is turning into a banana republic. There aren’t bad odds that Trump will get reelected. If he is, then Ben Franklin’s “A republic, if you can keep it,” line will be a concluding statement because we couldn’t. And “democracy” (such as there is) is on the decline all around the rest of the world too. Hell, we can barely even agree on the fundamentals of a consensual reality anymore.

This, mind you, against the backdrop of a world quite literally on fire, as more and more wealth is concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people who do less and less to address the unsustainable pace of exploitation and greed.

You think the Syrian refugee crisis is bad? You think the wildfires in Australia are bad? You think the coronavirus outbreak is bad? You haven’t seen shit yet. These have all been but the smallest appetizer of the ten-course meal that is the shitstorm yet to come. We will be lucky if the human race makes it to 2100 without deciding to be an unending LARP of Mad Max: Fury Road. And each and every day that passes, more grains of sand fall through the neck of the hourglass.

And I am expected to give a shit about some anime? About who scores more points in this social media shipper dick-waving contest?

Well, the truth is that I don’t.

I’ve already got the essential truth of the series.

I’ve already extracted the meaning from it.

I know what is good, I know what is bad, and I know what is ugly. I could, can, and will do it better. I just sometimes like taking out my frustrations on other people when they think they’re hot shit and can step.

And anime adaptation or not, nothing is going to change that. Whatever happens happens. And the truth is that it won’t matter either way to the body of the text that exists and will go on existing.

So if you’re anxious, or excited, or whatever in between, harden your heart and steel your nerves. Let’s see what happens. But I don’t care what it is, and I’m not interested in talking about it any more either.

[ofhouses]

1193. Waro Kishi /// House in Kamigyo /// Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan /// 1988-90

OfHouses presents: Japanese Fields OfHouses, part XIV. (Photos: © Hiroyuki Hirai. Source: ‘Jutakutokushu’ 02/1991; ‘Quaderns’ 202, 09-10/1993; ‘2G’ 19/2001; ‘El Croquis’ 77 (II)/1996; Waro Kishi + K. Associates/Architects Archive.) — This project will be published in our upcoming book: ’Japanese Fields | OfHouses.’

[juliaknz]

TOSHIAKI ISHIDA ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES 富士裾野の山荘, 2007 Shizuoka, Japan Image © Hiroyuki Hirai

[architorturedsouls]

Shishi-Iwa House / Shigeru Ban ph: Hiroyuki Hirai