Takashi Murakami Retrospective Exhibiton Video

In a follow-up to Takashi Murakami’s concluding retrospective exhibit in Bilbao, Spain, a Spanish video gives us a tour of the place with the help of Murakami himself. If you can’t understand Spanish, the visuals in themselves are pretty noteworthy.

this video of mgmt live is fucking dope!!!!!!

Mountain Dwellings / BIG

The Mountain Dwellings are the 2nd generation of the VM Houses - same client, same size and same street. The program, however, is 2/3 parking and 1/3 living. What if the parking area became the base upon which to place terraced housing - like a concrete hillside covered by a thin layer of housing, cascading from the 11th floor to the street edge? Rather than doing two separate buildings next to each other - a parking and a housing block - we decided to merge the two functions into a symbiotic relationship. The parking area needs to be connected to the street, and the homes require sunlight, fresh air and views, thus all apartments have roof gardens facing the sun, amazing views and parking on the 10th floor. The Mountain Dwellings appear as a suburban neighbourhood of garden homes flowing over a 10-storey building - suburban living with urban density.