Gallery-Takatsuka Architects Firm

<BODY bgcolor="#dbdbdb" text="#4f4f4f" link="#ffffff" vlink="#ffffff" alink="#c0c0c0"> <CENTER> <TABLE width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="font-size : 8pt;font-family : Tahoma;color : #996666;" width="50%">Takatsuka Architects Firm Co.,Ltd</TD> <TD align="right" style="font-family : Tahoma;color : #996666;font-size : 8pt;" width="50%">Japan</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </CENTER> <P align="center"><BR> <IMG src="gif/gallely-japanese style houses.gif" width="301" height="16" border="0"><BR> <BR> <BR> </P> <P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size : 10pt;font-family : Verdana;font-weight : bold;color : #996666;">- a Japanese style house in mid Tokyo -<BR> (the harmonization of traditional and contemporary style)</P> <P align="center" style='font-size : 10pt;font-family : "ＭＳＰゴシック";color : #996666;'>Shibuya-ku,Tokyo<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </P> <CENTER> <TABLE> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG src="images/minka-ima1.jpg" width="350" height="211" border="0" alt="1F serving both as living and dining room"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align="center" style='font-size : 10pt;font-family : "ＭＳＰゴシック";'>1F serving both as living and dining room</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> <BR> </CENTER> <CENTER> <TABLE width="350"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="155"><IMG src="images/minka-out.jpg" width="155" height="237" border="0" alt="outward appearance "></TD> <TD align="center" style='font-size : 10pt;font-family : "ＭＳＰゴシック";color : #6a6a6a;text-align : center;' width="206" valign="middle"> <P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;font-size : 10pt;font-family : Arial;color : #6a6a6a;">a 3-story steel frame building<BR> <BR> with a loft <BR> <BR> on the narrow site of<BR> <BR> road frontage of 4.4m<BR> <BR> extending back 16.3m deep<BR> <BR> made for two-households</P> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align="center" style='font-size : 10pt;font-family : "ＭＳＰゴシック";' width="155"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">outward appearance</SPAN></TD> <TD align="center"></TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> <BR> </CENTER> <CENTER> <TABLE> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG src="images/minka-ima2.jpg" width="350" height="277" border="0" alt="1F serving both as living and dining room"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align="center" style='font-size : 10pt;font-family : "ＭＳＰゴシック";'>1F serving both as living and dining room</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> <BR> </CENTER> <CENTER> <TABLE> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG src="images/minka-genkan.jpg" width="200" height="250" border="0" alt="entrance"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align="center" style='font-size : 10pt;font-family : "ＭＳＰゴシック";'>entrance</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> <BR> </CENTER> <CENTER> <TABLE> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="200"><IMG src="images/minka-living1.jpg" width="200" height="253" border="0" alt="serving both as living and dining room"></TD> <TD width="40" align="right"></TD> <TD width="200" align="right"><IMG src="images/minka-living2.jpg" width="200" height="253" border="0" alt="serving both as living and dining room"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align="center" style='font-size : 10pt;font-family : "ＭＳＰゴシック";' colspan="3"><BR> 3F serving both as living and dining room</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <FONT color="#6a6a6a" size="1"><BR> <BR> </FONT></CENTER> <CENTER> <TABLE cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="450"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="font-size : 10pt;font-family : Arial;color : #4f4f4f;text-align : justify;">This classical style of work, which looks as if it were just transferred from <I>Kiso</I> area, is a long and narrow house with a road frontage 3.6M wide, made for two households. "A bedroom of eels", so we Japanese usually call one like this just for kidding. <BR> At the time of planning, it was in the middle of the period of the irrational economic exuberance, "the Bubble economy", there appeared lots and lots of palatial residences one after another just competing their luxuriousness. I actually felt repelled by such trend and wishing to create something that stand for much more of spiritual wealth. <BR> During our planning, the client of this house, who is well versed in many fields, unobtrusively started to talk about a small water-bawl of Ryuan-ji Temple in Kyoto. He told me about the inscription on it that goes, "I solely have come to know what I was looking for", which definitely made me feel encouraged and since then, I have been expounding this thought and believed this could be anyone's idea for a comfortable way of living. <BR> Today, people still pay too much attention to servile looking, however, this house that is consciously far from fawning is quietly maintaining his thought in the middle of busy, changing, big city.</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </CENTER> <P align="right"><A href="tosin-plan_2.htm" id="_HPB_ROLLOVER1" onmouseout="HpbImgSwap('_HPB_ROLLOVER1','gif/button_go_plan_n_image.gif');" onmouseover="HpbImgSwap('_HPB_ROLLOVER1','gif/button_go_plan_m_image.gif');" target="_top"><IMG border="0" name="_HPB_ROLLOVER1" src="gif/button_go_plan_n_image.gif" alt="for plan"></A></P> <P align="center" style='font-size : 10pt;font-family : "ＭＳＰゴシック";'><BR> <BR> <BR> Construction:Miyagawa Engineering/Photogrash:Shogo Sato</P> <HR align="center" size="1" style="color : #4f4f4f;" width="100%"> <CENTER style="font-size : 8pt;font-family : Arial;color : #4f4f4f;"><A style="font-weight : bold;color : #6a6a6a;font-size : 8pt;font-family : Verdana;" href="kansoka-1_2.htm" target="tosin_right">[back]</A><FONT size="2" face="Verdana">　　</FONT><A style="font-weight : bold;color : #6a6a6a;font-size : 8pt;font-family : Verdana;" href="jindaiji_ie_2.htm" target="tosin_right">[next]</A><BR> <BR> <TABLE cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="105" style="color : #ffffff;background-color : #4f4f4f;font-size : 8pt;font-family : Arial;" align="center"><A href="index_2.htm" target="_top">Top Page</A></TD> <TD width="105" style="font-size : 8pt;font-family : Arial;color : #ffffff;background-color : #4f4f4f;" align="center"><A href="gallery_2.htm" target="_top">Gallery Menu</A></TD> <TD width="105" style="font-size : 8pt;font-family : Arial;color : #ffffff;background-color : #4f4f4f;" align="center"><A href="suki&sukiya.htm" target="_top">Suki and Sukiya</A></TD> <TD width="105" style="font-size : 8pt;font-family : Arial;color : #ffffff;background-color : #4f4f4f;" align="center"><A href="ht_2.htm" target="_top">HaruhikoTakatsuka</A></TD> <TD width="105" align="center" style="font-size : 8pt;font-family : Arial;color : #ffffff;background-color : #4f4f4f;"><A href="info_2.htm" target="_top">Company Profile</A></TD> <TD width="105" align="center" style="font-size : 8pt;font-family : Arial;color : #ffffff;background-color : #4f4f4f;"><A href="mailto:info@takatsuka-architects.com">E-mail</A></TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Takatsuka Architects Firm Co.,Ltd., All rights reserved.</CENTER> </BODY>