Tokyo style

Tokyo is the only among the largest metropolises - a city without a symbol. New York and Hong Kong have their famous types of skyscrapers, Paris - Eiffel Tower, London - Bridges through Thames. There are no iconic buildings in Tokyo, there is no familiar to the city or bay.
According to popular opinion, Tokyo clumsy, amorfen and constantly changing. His famous image is inspired by cinema: Tokyo is a scenery, through which Godzilla is furiously breaking. A series of destruction, rearrangements and transformations characterizes Tokyo as a city that has shown itself not with stability, but plasticity and originality of constant change. There are important historical and geographical reasons why Tokyo is a plastic city. Located on the shore of the Pacific, Tokyo has repeatedly suffered severely from earthquakes and fires. The bombing of the Second World War destroyed whole areas of the city, and now, due to global warming on Tokyo from the Japanese Sea, more and more typhoons are collapsed. Is it possible to build a house, find the original style in the midst of such briefness and impermanence? The answer to this question is on the pages of this book.
From houses that use every square centimeter of the precious space of Tokyo, and ending with concrete hotels with the form of giant toy robots, Tokyo architects and designers showed skill in giving human traits to their creations. They everywhere use all new, experimental, avant-garde: from the choice of materials to the method of reorganization and to give a different meaning to the living space. However, a traditional Japanese bath is always present in the bathroom, which blends all the pain of the modern world. In the Tokyo house, a whole built of plastic, a soft scattered light generates the game of shadows on a plastic wall, as elegant as the silhouette of the geisha on rice paper partitions-sodi