Anglo Italian Pet Architecture
Just been browsing this week’s Design week and came across an interesting article on ‘Pet Architecture’ in Tokyo.
‘Pets, companion animals of the people, are usually small, humorous and charming. We find what we could call “Per Architectur”, architecture having pet like characteristics, existing in the most unexpected places within the Tokyo city limits…’
If you didn’t see the article read it here.
Its being led by an Anglo Italian practice in Tokyo called Klein Dytham, who display a really interesting body of work. They’ve even plugged the google maps api into their site! (how friggin tech am I!)
I love the banner at the bottom of the site ‘Refreshingly Flash Free’ 
March 2nd, 2006 at 4:48 pm
I came across Klein Dytham Architecture while I was researching my library project on the MA course last year, they collaborated with Interactive Arts Super Megastar “Toshio Iwai” (wikipedia entry) on ICE for Bloomberg, this is in case you missed it on their site.
http://www.klein-dytham.com/interior/bloomberg_ice.php thats my favorite project of theirs and they did it for Bloomberg.
heres some more Toshio Iwai love (on youtube). If youve been to bradford, you may have already seen his work.. ‘the glitchy tv bank’.. his workanother time another place 1993 is installed in the national museum for photography and film in bradford.
March 2nd, 2006 at 4:53 pm
just in case you missed it.. I repeated my love of financial data twice in that comment.
That ArtFutura05 video second down on youtube is really nice.