Urban dementia: Walking past sites where some building has been erased and not being able to remember what was there only a week earlier.

(which, of course, can be a blessing.)

Tokyo meanwhile reminds us that the rational is merely one system among others. (Roland Barthes)

As the city is more and more clogged up with the building industry's equivalent of junk food, look forward to a hell of a stroke!

electric landscapes - more at tumblr.florianbusch.com

#FBA #exhibition in Kyoto: 16–23 Dec | florianbusch.com/?p=3060

As privatisation's bluntness encroaches on public space with less and less inhibition, concepts of otherness seem more timely than ever.

Makeshift's irresistible #typography. Shinjuku. instagram.com/p/BTxznH3ldJ0

2020年7月に新国立浮競技場はレインボーブリッジの下に錨をおろした。 そして、東京はオリンピック精神を再発見した時代の最初のホストとなった florianbusch.com/fsp/

News from the future: “In July of 2020, the New National Stadium, a ship, anchored under Odaiba’s Rainbow Bridge”. florianbusch.com/fsp/

"If everything is a circus, who cares about the bread?" —John Harris in the Guardian

"Hence the obvious question: how could such smart people be so stupid?" —John Naughton in The Guardian

What the fuck makes Twitter think that any of the crap coming out of this arse would be “my highlight”? #mightwanttoimproveyouralgorithms #notmyhighlights #thanksforkeepingyourshittoyourself

House in Takadanobaba by Florian Busch Architects Soft fabrics counter the hardness of the concrete. In folding a single plane, the house's three levels open up outward on alternate sides: arc.ht/2lXnJSH #ProjectOfTheDay

"For let us ban all measuring devices, let us declare public opinion the sole criterion of reality. How shall we then arrive at a valid judgment?" -Tobias Dantzig in 1930.

The #PresenceOfAbsence: Today is the first day that the #BerlinWall has been gone longer than it once stood: 28 years, two months, 27 days...

japantimes.co.jp/community/2018… -The Japan Times The Japan Times: A&E

Florian Busch, the architect who floated the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium jtim.es/WpLB30iHWgw

It's the 7-year anniversary of the 3.11 Tohoku earthquake & tsunami. For each person that does a search for "3.11" on Yahoo Japan, the company will donate 10 yen to recovery efforts. fukko.yahoo.co.jp x.com/YahooSearchJP/…