Tokyo Landscape Diorama!
August 3, 2020
Looking down Like a Bird “Urban planning requires a ‘man’s-eye view’ and a ‘bird’s-eye view,’” says Minoru Mori, president of MORI Building. So the team of 20 corporate staff started making an exquisitely detailed 1:1000 scale model of Tokyo in 2002. This model was later enlarged in 2009 and used to designate potential sites for […]
Zero Emission House in Japan: Daiwa House, PanaHome, Misawa Homes
August 1, 2020
Zero Emission House in Japan: Daiwa House, PanaHome, Misawa Homes By harnessing solar power generation and other forms of natural energy to their fullest, an inhabited dwelling can be made to emit no carbon dioxide (CO2), and possibly achieve even less than zero emissions. Misawa Homes has been engaged in development of this kind of […]