terrible freejazz musclé ! https://stnt.org/content/arashi-takeo-moriyama-tokuzo-trost-records-2024

#tröst #trost #arashi #sakata #paalnilsenlove #MORIYAMA #johanberthling #STNT

Vevey (15.02.2025)

Samedi passé, j’ai entrepris une ballade urbaine de la gare au lac. Dans l’esprit de la Snapshot photography de Daido Moriyama.

En suivant cet homme, je me retrouve plongé en arrière à mes 15 ans lorsque je portais une veste jeans avec les noms de mes groupes préférés dessinés au stylo indélébiles.

#streetphotography #snapshotphoto #DaidoMoriyama
#moriyama #suisse #vevey #rock #sonya6400 #sonyfe24mm28g

Having easier access to my post archives lets me see what I was posting in the past. So for example, 10 years ago today:

> So, the British Library building is, um, inspired by Moriyama's Toronto Reference Library building?

Posting that, I was basing on the British Library building being completed more than 20 years after the TRL. Having checked on it some more now, it looks like both designs are products of the 1970s, with Toronto being perhaps a few years earlier.

Toronto Reference Library was designed by Raymond Moriyama with final plan in 1974 and completion in 1977. British Library was designed by MJ Long and Colin St John Wilson: it had begun planning in 1962, but on a different site, then a plan started around 1975 was approved in 1978 - substantially similar to what ended up being built, starting in 1980s and completed in 1998.

The design similarities are both outside, with red brick (to match existing nearby Victorian architecture) and single-slope roofs (because 1970s?), and inside, with a tiered central atrium and those curving hanging staircases.

Consider:
* exterior at main entrance: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Reference_Library,_exterior.jpg vs https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20191103_British_library.jpg
* interior: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Reference_Library_atrium_(36218188281).jpg vs https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_British_Library_Entrance_Hall,_London,_July_21,_2024.jpg

More about the TRL building:
* https://oaa.on.ca/whats-on/bloaag/bloaag-detail/Toronto-Reference-Library-1977 (2016)
* https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/trl/2017/11/were-turning-40-and-we-look-good-.html (2017)

More about the British Library building:
* https://www.architectural-review.com/archive/from-the-archive-british-library-in-london-by-colin-st-john-wilson-and-mj-long (1978)
* https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1426345?section=official-list-entry (2015)

#architecture #RaymondMoriyama #Moriyama #BritishLibrary

One would think that after the #Greenbelt disaster that #DougFord and crew might back off on the #OntarioPlace scam.

They're scheduled to dismantle the #Moriyama designed Temple Bell at Ontario Place on Monday, September 25th.

This was a gift from the Japanese Canadian community to celebrate the centennial of Japanese settlement in Canada in 1877.

The Doug Ford crime spree continues.

#Ontario #OntarioScienceCentre #onpoli #Toronto #racism

https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/09/therme-spa-ontario-landmark-removal/

Statement from #Moriyama Teshima Architects:

“The purpose of the Science Centre is inseparable from the site it currently inhabits.

At Moriyama Teshima Architects, we believe the science that is unequivocally telling us that we need to be preserving and regenerating our buildings.

“Ontario designed an institution of international significance once before. Let’s save the one we have and do it again.”

#dofo #onpoli #toronto #heritage #topoli #Ontario #ScienceCentre #demolition #privatization