When I first saw the New Sky Building #3 I just fell in love with the design. Located near the HigashiShinjuku Station in Shinjuku the building looks like it warped in from some sort of horrible post-apocalyptic future and is a pleasant break from the cookie cutter box-with-a-balcony buildings that are everywhere in Japan. This is the Blade Runner
The architect, Yoji Watanabe, designed it to look like a battleship and called it Gunkan:
But one of the most redeeming aspects about Watanabe’s buildings are that they only get better as they get older:
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These are cool.. Exactly- Totally Blade Runner. I wish I lived in an awesome dystopian reality building….
Looks like stuff from Aeon Flux (?)
Boom exactly. I was going to make a generational comment however I have no idea how old you are man.
Creepy…and creepier when older. But yeah it all remind me of Blade Runner and the movies alike
I would love to live in one of these.
Wow, Gaijinass is, once again, a fine source for inspiration! Now I know what to search when I need to find really cool ideas for building designs! Gonna draw some stuff!