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https://text-bin.blogspot.com/2017/04/architecture-of-japanese-bubble.html
"1980s Japan was a nation hurtling at exponentially increasing speeds
into a seething, self-consuming, technologically fantastical,
aesthetically ravishing future, fuelled by a turbo-charged mixture of
industrial innovation, financial speculation, and the biggest
real-estate bubble the world had ever seen.
An unprecedented wave of new development transformed the nation’s
cities, feeding off quite literally insane land valuations that saw
property selling in Ginza for $750,000 a square meter, and which meant
the land on which the Imperial Palace sat in Tokyo was calculated to be
worth more than all the real estate in the whole of California combined.
While Japanese corporations were hoovering up companies around the
world, small rural towns with more money than they knew what to do with
were building gigantic museums, stadiums and bridges, and Japanese
businessmen were happy to spend $80 million dollars for a single
painting, a riotous sense of raging hyperreality was manifesting itself
across Japanese culture.
From the dystopian future Tokyos of Ghost in the Shell and Akira,
to Hayao Miyazaki’s anime films with their collapsing together of the
past and the present, the fantastical and the banal, and the Western and
the Japanese, to the urban condition of the country’s great cities,
which were rapidly coming to resemble Ridley Scott’s hyper-saturated,
dark vision in Blade Runner, the frenetic financial explosion ignited
an aesthetic chain reaction that saw the creation of a whole ecosystem
of new artistic subcultures and forms of expression.
The efflorescence of strange new forms was particularly marked in
Architecture, in which a generation of designers produced some of the
most distinctive buildings to be found anywhere in the world. Unlike
other countries where development is usually at a very large scale, the
vast majority of construction in Japan occurs towards the smaller end of
the development spectrum. Even in times of normal economic activity this
allows for younger, and more alternative architects to acquire
commissions, but in the boom years it led to a feverish bonanza of
commissions for a host of architects with highly idiosyncratic
approaches, buildings by a few of the unfathomably more forgotten of
whom are shown here."
Via Christoph S, who wrote "Some really wild designs!"
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
Dear list,
Yes.
We are in unexpected bubble economy.
2024年2月21日(水) 17:23 Andrew Pam <xanni@glasswings.com.au>:
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https://text-bin.blogspot.com/2017/04/architecture-of-japanese-bubble.html
"1980s Japan was a nation hurtling at exponentially increasing speeds
into a seething, self-consuming, technologically fantastical,
aesthetically ravishing future, fuelled by a turbo-charged mixture of
industrial innovation, financial speculation, and the biggest
real-estate bubble the world had ever seen.
An unprecedented wave of new development transformed the nation’s
cities, feeding off quite literally insane land valuations that saw
property selling in Ginza for $750,000 a square meter, and which meant
the land on which the Imperial Palace sat in Tokyo was calculated to be
worth more than all the real estate in the whole of California combined.
While Japanese corporations were hoovering up companies around the
world, small rural towns with more money than they knew what to do with
were building gigantic museums, stadiums and bridges, and Japanese
businessmen were happy to spend $80 million dollars for a single
painting, a riotous sense of raging hyperreality was manifesting itself
across Japanese culture.
From the dystopian future Tokyos of Ghost in the Shell and Akira,
to Hayao Miyazaki’s anime films with their collapsing together of the
past and the present, the fantastical and the banal, and the Western and
the Japanese, to the urban condition of the country’s great cities,
which were rapidly coming to resemble Ridley Scott’s hyper-saturated,
dark vision in Blade Runner, the frenetic financial explosion ignited
an aesthetic chain reaction that saw the creation of a whole ecosystem
of new artistic subcultures and forms of expression.
The efflorescence of strange new forms was particularly marked in
Architecture, in which a generation of designers produced some of the
most distinctive buildings to be found anywhere in the world. Unlike
other countries where development is usually at a very large scale, the
vast majority of construction in Japan occurs towards the smaller end of
the development spectrum. Even in times of normal economic activity this
allows for younger, and more alternative architects to acquire
commissions, but in the boom years it led to a feverish bonanza of
commissions for a host of architects with highly idiosyncratic
approaches, buildings by a few of the unfathomably more forgotten of
whom are shown here."
Via Christoph S, who wrote "Some really wild designs!"
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
FYI
from Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/02/22/markets/japan-stocks-hits-record-high/