City Walks and Salon

“Toyosu” Walking Tour / Lighting Survey – Shinjyuku, Sendai / Ginza Streetlight Competition, and more.

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5 March 2007 This month in cooperation with Yamagiwa Corp., we rented out the Space Studio in the Yamagiwa Livina Showroom in the Akihabara District of Tokyo. It is a big and spacious studio with designer furniture and light fixtures on dis…

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BANGKOK 2007, Thailand

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Bangkok, a city in a swirl of on-going change. In our previous survey of Tokyo’s Kanda River, we discover that the backs of buildings face the river creating and area of dark contrast in the middle of the city. But here along the Chaopraya …

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BANGKOK, Thailand

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In Bangkok, the development of giant commercial facilities continues, as modern times blend with Buddhism to create the nightscape. The light from architecture, high-class restaurants, and shopping centers of these civilized, modern times a…

City Walks and Salon

Toyosu City Walk

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16 February 2007 As new condominiums keep popping up everywhere, the new area of focus is the Toyosu District. Large-scale commercial facilities and a university campus also complete this “model” for new urban planning. As the cold winds of…

Annual Forum

5th Annual TN Forum: 2006 / Singapore Façade Lighting

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Date: November 23rd, 2006 Program: City Tour, Workshop, Exhibition, Symposium Venue: URA Center Transnational Tanteidan Forum 2006 in Singapore In 2002, the Transnational Tanteidan Forum started in Tokyo, moved to Europe and the US, and, no…

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TOKYO

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From up above Tokyo looks like an overturn jewelry box, the night streets glitter with lights and it a fairly beautiful sight. Once back on ground, the glitter has turned harsh. It is an economically advanced nightscape, an efficient nights…

Candle Night

CANCELED: Candle Night Winter Solstice 2006

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Candle Night @ Omotesando, scheduled for December 21, 2006, has been canceled. It is unfortunate that this annual December event, started in 2003 along Cat Street, will not be held this winter solstice. Instead of holding this event twice a…

City Walks and Salon

Moon Watching at “Sankeien Garden” / Lighting Survey – Hiroshima, Taipei

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17 October 2006 Reported News, Surveys, and Events Moon Watching in Sankei Garden…..Tsutomo Nagatsu,Yusuke Hatori Hiroshima Urban Lighting Survey….Tsutomo Nagatsu,Yuki Ogawa Taipei, Taiwan Lighting Survey…Mikene Yamamoto Mixed in with the h…

City Walks and Salon

Moon Watching at Sankeien Garden, Yokohama

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06 October 2006 Now that the heat of the summer is over, the Lighting Detectives converged on Sankeien Garden in Yokohama to see the new harvest moon glow over traditional Japanese architecture and garden grounds and experience moonlight. E…

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HIROSHIMA

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It was 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945 when the first of two bombs dropped on Hiroshima then Nagasaki. Sixty-one years have passed since this memorable day and every year victims are remembered in a peace memorial ceremony attended by…

City Walks and Salon

“Hakone” Walking Tour / Nihonbashi & Sumidagawa Survey, plus more.

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7 July 2006 The Lighting Detectives are always on the move and for this salon the party moved to the ERCO TOTO Showroom in Minato Ward, Tokyo. Reported by Motoyo Ogawa Reported News, Surveys, and Events Hakone City Walk…Momoko Muraoka Nihon…

City Walks and Salon

The Hydrangea Hillsides of Hakone

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28 June 2006 Survey by: Momoko Muraoka From Shinjuku to Hakone, we left Shinjuku Station one June evening on the Romance Train bound for the illumination of the beautiful hydrangea of the Hakone hills. From the Romance Train we all cramped …

Candle Night

Cande Night Summer Solstice 2006: Omotesando – Eco Avenue

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June 22, 2006 Summer Solstice Candle Night @ Omotesando – Eco Avenue The biannual Candle Night event was held again this year on June 21st along Omotesando. This event, started by an environmental NGO, has grown to include over 500 se…

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TOKYO : NIHONBASHI & SUMIDAGAWA

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In the heart of Tokyo, Nihonbashi River lies hidden under a system of highway overpasses and the Sumida River is wide and commanding and it cuts through the city. With a variety of bridges, both rivers assert their own unique presence in th…

City Walks and Salon

Nihonbashi & Sumidagawa Riverwalk / Light Up Ninja in Singapore / Lighting Survey / Christmas Illuminations

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10 April 2006 Reported by Yukiko Saito Reported News, Surveys, and Events Nihonbashi & Sumidagawa Riverwalk…Tsutomo Nagatsu Light Up Ninja: Singapore…Kaoru Mende Kyoto City Lighting Survey…Momoko Muraoka Kobe City Lighting Survey…Tsuto…

City Walks and Salon

Nihonbashi & Sumidagawa Riverwalk

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20 March 2006 Redevelopment in Tokyo is at an all time high, but with big construction comes consequence. On this city walk 26 lighting detective set off on a river tour to rediscover Nihonbashi and Sumida Rivers. As more and more light is …

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KYOTO

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Kyoto is an ancient city of Japan that was planned based on feng shui, or Chinese divination. Although the streets of Kyoto are a typical gridiron pattern, unique spatial conditions derived from the machiya, or Japanese style townhouses, ar…

Annual Forum

4th Annual TN Forum: 2005 / New York Main Street Lighting

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Date: September 22nd, 2005 Program: City Tour, Symposium Venue: AIA Center for Architecture It was another beautiful autumn day in New York City for the 4th Annual Transnational Tanteidan Forum. It all started 4 years again in 2001 with the…

Candle Night

Candle Night Winter Solstice 2005: Lantern Light @ Omotesando

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22 December 2005 It was a chilly winter night for the December 22, 2005 Candle Night event. Across the street from the new Otomesando Hills construction site in the final months of opening-day preparations, soft, warm light danced along the…

Light Up NINJA

5th Light Up Ninja@Singapore

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Duxton Plain Park, Singapore 19 & 20 November 2005 Go, Go Ninjas!! Light Up Ninja Logo The Light Up Ninjas have a long history with the Lighting Detectives. The purpose of the original event was to sneak around illuminating the ordinar…