Longfellow House

After renovation for a couple of years, the Longfellow house
and the garden is now open from sunrise to sunset on
the Brattle Street.

Knightsbridge

Big Ben

Prada in daylights

Here are some photos of Prada and Cartier crystal buildings in daylights.
Tey are beautiful both days and nights. Look at interesting reflections
on both buildings.

Prada, Aoyama

Designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
Tom and Amber in front of the Prada.

Prada's pink is quite unusual and pretty with their orthodox black color bags.

Cartier and Chloe, Aoyama

These two glass building stand right next to the Prada.

A-Bomb Dome, Hiroshima

A-Bomb Dome shows how the bomb swept the city into an instant destruction.

Looking backward in Back Bay

Deluca's is still in operatin at the corner of Newbury and Fairfield.
The old Iwasawa neighborhood. The Iwasawas used to invite interesting guests to their Comm. Ave. apartment. It was like an intellectual salon in operation into midnight.


Commonwealth Avenu has nice town houses.
I spent the summer of 1995 at an apartment on Malborough Street to finalize my dissertation.
Malborough St. town houses are still beautiful

Back Bay architectures in a hot summer afternoon

The sermon at the Unitarian-Universalist church was on the importance of balancing between reason and passion. After exchanging friendly conversations with some of the church members during the coffee hour after the service, I directly headed to the Newbury street in pursuit of material blessings in addition to spiritual blessings I just had been bestowed abandantly. Here are some pictures of my Sunday loitering around holy and not-so-holy houses in the Back Bay.The Newbury Street was packed with people and cars for shopping and dining. It was such a hot day, indeed.
The Trinity Church in the Copley Square.
The Old South (the Third Church of Boston) in the Copley Square.
Back in Cambridge, Mr. H seemed to have had another busy day for photo shootings with many visitors. Some school children are touching his left foot alternately. Is this one form of religious performance in the pantheon of arts and sciences?

Purifying water

Between the building and the walk, there is a little rivulet running through. Water's purifying quality is employed as if it purges impurity of mere mortal consumers. The mall, the modern site for mass consumption, turns into a sacred space like a temple by attaching water runs through alongsaide the pedestrian walk. The inside is like a sanctuary with environmentally conscious music from nature.

Omotesando Hills by Tadao Ando

One charm of the Omotesando Hills, designed by Tadao Ando & Mori Building, is its reflections of trees and natural environment on the glasses. Situating in the middle of the city, it presents a calming impression for it takes nature into the building.

"Sketches of Frank Gehry"

I saw the "Sketches of Frank Gehry," a documentary film directed by Sydney Pollack at Bunkamura (Shibuya) recently. How much fun this architect must be having designing fantastically unique buildings! In March I had lunch at the Faculty Dining at M. I. T. in Cambridge, MA. I fully enjoyed being in a sunny space with nice selections of dishes. Gehry betrays ordinary expectations of proper sense of locations -- you feel you are in an open space even inside the building. What a magical space he can creat. I enjoyed the movie as well back in Tokyo.

Maison HERMES by Renzo Piano

Tokyo now is filled with post-modern architectures all over. This is one of them, Hermes flagship building in Ginza. It looks especially glorious in sunset reflecting many colors both natural and artificial.