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| "...this structure centers on a small hearth, the room is lit only by subtle light, and is inwardly focused. It is equipped with no modern facilities; what is in the room has been carried in, bringing renewed attention to the preciousness of material resources..." |
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| "For the past ten years, Kyoto City has held an arts festival called "Geijutsu Saiten." As part of that festival, an open competition is held to select artists who will be commissioned to install large-scale artworks at a pre-determined location in Kyoto. The artworks proposed are almost always "modern" and the places chosen as venues, "traditional," in most cases large Buddhist temples. In this way the competition organizers hope to spark some meaningful interaction between Old and New Kyoto. This year the chosen venue was Daigoji..." |
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| "...five acre site was divided into three zones; the factory and its service area, a 2,500 m2 plaza for parking and/or special events, and the park itself. The park contains various gardens as well as three 200 year-old farmhouses, reassembled on site..." |
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| "Daimon-cho is the district just in front of the temple gates and has been catering to pilgrims since the middle ages. The redesign took into account the historic nature of the district..." |
