After the conflagration: a ruined Tokyo dormitory
October 7, 2011 · Haikyo, Residential, Tokyo-to · 16 Comments 

In 2007 the Seika Dormitory in central Tokyo went up in flames. The roof was burnt away and flames roared up the building’s old stairways and licked at rooms full of possessions, melting and burning some unrecognizably, leaving others coated…

Tokyo’s Urban Battleship

Tokyo’s urban battleship glides through the ever-changing cityscape like a predatory shark- its mad crescent fin stocked with slate-grey torpedoes and radar foils- hunting out fresh prey for the saw-blade teeth ratcheted down its flat-iron side. Built in 1970 by…

Burnt Down House haikyo
April 22, 2010 · Burned, Haikyo, Residential, Saitama · 5 Comments 

When I went on the wedding haikyo shoot a few weeks back we stumbled upon this burnt down house. Normally I`d bypass it in favor of the target- in this case we were looking for the Hume factory, but that…

‘Slumpy’ the tumble-down Detroit mansion
September 29, 2009 · Residential, USA, World Ruins · 4 Comments 

Collapse: toppled apartment building in Shanghai
September 28, 2009 · China, Residential, World Ruins · 8 Comments 

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Infiltrating the Rojin home
June 12, 2009 · Haikyo, Residential, Shizuoka · 11 Comments 

The Rojin (old folks) Home we stumbled across in Shizuoka was a happy accident, one of those random call-outs from the back seat of the car that normally go unheeded. We were searching for an abandoned hospital and having little…

The death of Metabolism- the New Sky Biru
April 20, 2009 · Haikyo, Residential, Tokyo-to · 13 Comments 

The New Sky Building in Shinjuku belongs to the stable of architecture known as Metabolism, a 1970′s movement in Japan to create utilitarian, utopian, bolt-on and off structures that can change and evolve as needed.  It was a grand-sounding vision…

Apartments behind the barricade- abandoned
November 28, 2008 · Haikyo, Residential, Tokyo-to · 11 Comments 

The Osawa Apartments Haikyo in Sagamihara is a high-walled preserve for the recent past, shuttered in behind a plate-metal security fence 15 feet high. Outside the fence traffic races by on a highway slip road, and elementary school children play…

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