This is one of my favorites in Tokyo. In traditional Japanese style, shojin style, the transition from interior to exterior is not that brisk as in western architecture. If only we think of what is under the overhanging big roof. The interior with the well known tatami matting, the rice paper sliding doors (Shoji), the veranda, half height curtains, sliding storm panels, a pebble bed to collect the rain.
The new building show these themes again. The border between inside and outside is hard to point out. The vague transition is visually vague as well. The frosted glass panels blur the image or the facade. Only the trees proof that the picture is focussed correctly.
And behind that facade is a very ordinary building after all.
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