October 19, 2005

Kawahito





A police station by Kawahito Architects in Sapporo -- architecture of obscurity. They can see you, but you can't see them.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

freaky. (that they can see sidewalkers)

Miss J said...

it's pretty nice, though, isn't it? i like how the architect just took it all the way.

bruce said...

i like this photograph, http://www.europaconcorsi.com/db/pub/architecture.php?id_scheda=7429&idimg=58543, it looks like a ghostly interior.

Anonymous said...

"they can see you, but you can't see them."

hey- the panopticon!