OhtaNotes

The Bitcoin billboard promises decentralization from a centrally located billboard in one of Tokyo’s most expensive neighborhoods.

Roppongi nightlife venues invest in facades because the facade is the only part of the business that operates in daylight.

Three different construction technologies visible in one frame: load-bearing brick, reinforced concrete, curtain wall glass. Each was the future once.

In two to three weeks, temperature and light will trigger the hormonal cascade that produces cherry blossoms. The trees are already calculating.

A garden built indoors to remind us of outdoors, visited by people who came indoors to escape outdoors.

We come to hotels to feel at home. We come home to feel the way hotels make us feel.

Two systems of belief, side by side. One measures time in centuries. The other in quarters.

It was here before you. It will be here after.

The shadow moves approximately fifteen degrees per hour. In the time it takes to pass this wall, a decision inside may have been made that will affect millions.

Everything goes around it. Nothing goes through.