Inversionary Architectural

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Haikyo

The world of Haikyo, or modern ruins, is a facinating one.

As a child I remember playing in an abandoned milk processing factory where the blue tin foil milk bottle lids lined the floor up to my knees in some places. The place (in the industrial area of Mackay Nth QLD in the 80s) was creepy and exciting. The industrial scale and rusting plant equipment was a source of facination and to this day the memory of the building is vivid.

The idea of exploring Haikyo and recording them before they disappear into the ocean of redevelopment is a great one...particularly in Japan where there seems to be a endless source of amazing modern ruins. Here is a link to one site on the subject http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/ruins-gallery/ there are many more sites around and a bunch of books printed in Japan.

Pictured above is the soon to be removed Nakagin Capsule Hotel in Shimbashi.

Time for some Haikyo hunting to take place in Brisbane! More to follow soon.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Not Ghost Bumpers...

This 'corner fin' on a Highgate Hill house is Brisbane has made me rethink the SE Asian ghost bumper connection to the Qlder style house.
This corner fin was attached to a mediterranean style villa (next to Torbreck) and establishes a direct connection to the contemporaneous Qlders in the area (West End/Highgate Hill). This would indicate that the origin of the Qlder corner fin is Western (classical?) rather than Eastern.
So...are SE Asian ghost bumpers and the Qlder corner fins just coincidental or is there a connection after all??
(To be continued...)