'house tower' model, tokyo 2006 from the recent exhibition at the louisiana museum, <a href="http://www.louisiana.dk" rel="nofollow">www.louisiana.dk</a> architects: atelier bow-wow, yoshiharu tsukamoto and momoyo kaijima, tokyo.

we need to compare the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/6260631612/in/photostream/"> four boxes gallery</a> to atelier bow-wow's Japanese work. this sectional model of the 'house tower' shows their predilection for open, split-level floors. you can find a related reaction to what we might call a european or western architecture of enclosed, discrete spaces in the very different buildings of kengo kuma. the 'house tower' has a footprint of just 18 square meters, one example of the extreme demands made on buildings in tokyo and documented so beautifully in the books and projects of atelier bow-wow.

an open staircase connecting so many floors had never been allowed in copenhagen, by the way.

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