(Naha, Okinawa, Japan)(Architeture)(Architecture Hunting)2023-07-31
Naha Prefectural Museum
With an appearance borrowed from ancient Okinawan fortresses (gusuku), the Naha Prefectural Museum is simultaneously futuristic with gentle curves, rectilinear geometry and stacked forms.
A joint venture between Ishimoto and Niki design houses, the Naha Prefectural Museum appears as both a cascading, multi-tiered limestone waterfall and an immovable monolith – the result of a geological phenomenon aeons ago. A large footprint coupled with steeply slanted precast sides render it strangely squat yet soaring. Its appearance borrows from ancient Okinawan fortresses (gusuku) yet is simultaneously futuristic with gentle curves, rectilinear geometry and stacked forms.
Le Lotus Bleu Hotel
On Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Japan, this historical home and Noh Theatre was transported from Gifu by an eccentric Kimono-maker and now hosts guests who visit the tropical Ryukyu island
Yaima Village of Indigenous Okinawan Architecture
A village constructed of pre-war Indigenous Okinawan architecture, shipped and reconstructed from around the Ryukyu Archipelago
Shinmori Residence – 新盛家住宅
We take a tour of Iriomote Island, Okinawa, with Indigenous Ryukyu Researcher and artist Karola Mech to see a 150-year-old Meiji Era preserved residence, an example of local Yaeyama indigenous technology and architecture.
