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Multi-use space: parking tower, Buddhist temple, pedestrian priority side street

June 3, 2012public space, small streets, Temples and shrines, trees, Walking and transitお寺, エレベター・パーキングタワー, big, buddha, chatting, 話し, 赤い, 路地, garden, graveyard, multi-use, Ni-chome, parking, pedestrian, Shinjuku, side, street, strolling, tower, 墓, 庭, 散歩, 新宿二丁目, 一角, 仏像palmsundae Leave a comment

この新宿二丁目の一角が好きです。お寺の仏像の赤い服はよだれかけみたいです。墓と庭の一部は三階建てのエレベター・パーキングタワーになってしまいました。背が高い木のおかげで、散歩したり話したりするのに、いい路地です。

I like this strange block in Shinjuku ni chome. There’s a temple with a lovely buddha statue wearing a red cloth bib, and part of the garden and graveyard have been given over to a three elevator automated parking tower. The tall trees also make this a good side street for strolling and chatting.

Cranes loom over cemetery as new apartments replace old danchi above Myoenji temple and graveyard

April 2, 2012Governments, Residences, Temples and shrinesabove, apartment, ランドスケープ, building, cemetery, crane, 神宮前, danchi, 計画, graveyard, Jingumae, luxury, Myoenji, neighbor, new, public housing, replace, stone, temple, wooden, 原宿, 原宿団地, 妙円寺, 対話, 建設用クレーンpalmsundae Leave a comment

背の高い建設用クレーンと限りなく続く墓石と卒塔婆がおたがいに対話をしています。妙円寺はきれい木が多いですが、新しいマンションはどんなランドスケープを計画する予定でしょうか。

Tokyo is always under construction. Yet it is uncanny to see the building cranes echoing the hundreds of grave stones and wooden memorials below. The site is the former Harajuku Danchi public housing, which is being replaced by luxury apartments, directly above from Myoenji temple and graveyard. The temple has some very lovely, old trees. I wonder what type of landscape the new building will offer its neighbors.

Temporary and semi-permanent parking flanked by temple, offices, apartments

February 2, 2012public space, Residences, small streets, Temples and shrinesapartments, お寺, エレベーター, オフィスビル, マンション, changing, Dead space, dense, 駐車所, 高い, graveyard, office, parking, property, semi-permanent, Shinjuku ni-chome, tall, temple, temporary, 半永久, 囲まれて, 土地, 仮設palmsundae One comment

仮設の半永久的な駐車所はお寺やオフィスビルやマンションに囲まれています。高いエレベーターの駐車場はお寺の土地を使っているそうです。

In the foreground, there’s an automated surface parking lot on a lot that may get developed. The tall white structure is an elevated parking lot that is semi-permanent, and it appears to have been erected on the property of a fairly large temple and graveyard. On either side, offices and apartment buildings frame a dense and changing city.