Sunday, March 21, 2010

Toilet showroom, penis-shaped building and culture time

I went for a stroll in Shinjuku, originally for shopping although in the end I just end up walking around and visiting stuff.

Check the insane queue for ... Krispy kreme donuts ??!


Being a fan of modern architecture & buildings,  I headed towards them and saw this :


"ok the form is phallic but you can't really say it looks like a penis ... Wait, what ?!" :

Ahahah it couldn't be more obvious except maybe with a second speric structure at the base. I'd like to hear more about this building, there must be an interesting story behind it. anyway, the view from said building .

Anyway, after that I moved on to the next building, in order to visit the Toto showroom . Toto is the famous japanese toilet manufacturer, the one producing all these crazy toilets fitted with gadgets.
You can see toilets with movement sensor so they open and close the toilet automatically , or flush when you leave  and the "classic" heated seat, "ass washer", air blowing device, automatic deodorant and all the weird stuff.

...Even LCD screens and remote controls ! ahah


View from the Toto showroom, with a really strange structure in the bottom left which looks like a "hollow volcano" 

Weird mixe : Tall and new building, big road with several level and a train line, a some traditional houses lost in the middle.

More buildings :

After that, it was supposed to be robot time, so my next stop would be the opera city tower, where the NTT electronics center - or some name along those lines - is. Unfortunately, it was closed for renovation. I hope the robots are the ones doing the renovation. 

So I went for a art exhibit instead, "Elements" by Cecil Balmont and other artists & architects. They were guests of the gallery, which also had a permanent collection. Pictures were forbidden but it was really a nice expo with installations and stuff. It was mainly about architecture,  and also patterns in nature.

Later on I had some coffee on top of the tower, with a view over Shinjuku by night. The picture is horrible because of the mirror effect in the window, but if you looks closely (click ont he image for a bigger size) , you can see the view behind. It made me feel like I was in the movie Blade Runner or something :-)



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