Anvi's Photoblog / Life of the engineer turned finance major turned architect

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Revival

After realizing photoblogging has done more for my life than anything else I've done, I'm going to revive my blog. It won't be a daily photoblog, but at least I'll have a regular outlet for my photos. Architecture ain't going to get in the way this time... This weekend!

Rest / Play

Knitted Wonder Space 2
By Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam
Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan

Westcoast sunset, Tofino

White sand, incredibly blue skies, beauty and the vivid colour of eyes,
the warm glow of summer evenings, overlooking a setting sun, laughter and smirks.

I drew closer to the beautiful lyrics from this old, wooden house. It was silent aside from the guitar and a heavenly voice. Closer, I noticed there were at least 40 people crammed into this little tatami-lined bar listening to this guy play. It made my day being able to sit down across the street and listen.

Yokohama Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects (FOA)

Ironically, my cultural shock within a week of arriving in Japan exceeds that of my Austrian exchange. A new definition of personal space, courtesy and mannerism, and the extremity of consumerism had left me often dumbfounded. It was the slower pace of Yokohama (quite similar to Toronto, I heard from random Canadians on the subway) that made me realize that this cultural shock pertains only to Tokyo, and the rest of Japan is something else. I need to go elsewhere.