Tokyo

In his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival, architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden reveals some of Tokyo’s “invisible” waterways, which flow beneath the city’s roads and pavements. “As many as 2,500 people cross each time the light turns green,” van der Linden says in the video, while standing at Tokyo’s busy Shibuya Crossing.

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Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden visits Kengo Kuma’s new Olympic stadium in Tokyo in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. “Here behind me is the new Olympic Stadium designed by Kengo Kuma,” says van der Linden. “The project was rather controversial, as the international competition was initially won by Zaha Hadid.” Officially

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In his second video selection for Virtual Design Festival, Martin van der Linden explains the metabolist characteristics of Kenzo Tange’s Kuwait Embassy, which the video blogger describes as one of his favourite buildings in Tokyo. Van der Linden has produced a host of short videos about Tokyo architecture for his One Minute Architecture channel on

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Kengo Kuma’s SunnyHills cake shop illustrates how the architect interprets the Japanese vernacular, according to YouTuber Martin van der Linden in the first of a series of videos from Tokyo shared with Virtual Design Festival. Van der Lindin, who produces the One Minute Architecture channel on YouTube, made a short film about the basket-like building

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Today Virtual Design Festival teams up with Dutch architect Martin van der Linden of YouTube channel One Minute Architecture to present a selection of his best short architecture movies. Van der Linden, founder of Tokyo-based Van Der Architects, has lived in Japan since 1995 when he moved to the country to work on Hiroshi Hara’s

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