flower window
A feature in Chinese gardens, the entire frame of a flower window is filled with a fretwork of flowers. The garden space is glimpsed through gaps in the pattern with the window serving as a frame for the scenery. It is a type of visual device that comes in many different formats.
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The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change
In October of last year (2021), the Migishi Atelier (Kamisaginomiya, Nakano, Tokyo) was opened to th…
01 Apr 2022
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The Yosuitei13 Bokusekimado
,13 Bokusekimado A bokusekimado (lit. “brushwork window”), also known as a hanaakarimado (lit. “flo…
06 Dec 2021
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Aram from Armenia
The atmosphere in a room viewed through a window. The outdoor scenery as you look through the window…
27 Apr 2021
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An Alien Landscape from the Window
Clear air, born from the trees, the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprou…
19 Nov 2020
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Life Seeps Through Frosted Glass
Clear air, born from the trees, the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprou…
02 Oct 2020
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Nature Behind a Curtain Wall
Clear air, born from the trees, the land. White steam that murmurs from a kitchen. Plants that sprou…
02 Sep 2020
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The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
The Window Research Institute will be holding an exhibition titled The Window: A Journey of Art and …
02 Sep 2020
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Part 3 Shokatei at Katsura Imperial Villa
Members of the Imperial Family were the first to enjoy the luxury of tea, a valuable item at that ti…
03 Oct 2018
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Part 2: Jo-an
It seems reasonable to assume that chanoyu, or the Japanese “Way of Tea” established by …
10 Aug 2018
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Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in weste…
10 Apr 2018
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Palma
The window of a flower shop in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A wooden rain shutter is stored und…
05 Dec 2017
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Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through
One way to use an aperture is to pass physical things through it. In most cases apertures are instal…
15 Nov 2017
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Window Embracing the Hometown
Part 2 of “The Joys of Making Windows”, the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio Un…
08 Nov 2017
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Part 1: Apertures for Light
Fleeting and weak though it is, light in Scandinavia has a mysterious kind of allure to it. Could it…
20 Sep 2017
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Casa Barragan
The window looking onto the inner garden of Louis Barragan’s house is divided into a large fixed win…
07 Aug 2017
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Tove Jansson’s Window
Photographer Takashi Homma introduces some compelling windows spliced between his own photos and tex…
06 Sep 2016
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Into the Depth of the Window
The end of summer time, like the morning air which feels more and more crisp as the days go by, is o…
08 Mar 2016
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la fenêtre à la française
Six years have passed since I arrived in Paris. Although my daily life has been changing and evolvin…
17 Sep 2015
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Giving Color to Windows
Textile coordinator/designer Yoko Ando has been directing how textiles are used around windows in th…
18 Mar 2015
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Part 2: The Gathered Gates and Windows
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in weste…
14 Feb 2018
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Window and Sharing (First Half)
Interviewed are now widely noted architects, Yuri Naruse and Jun Inokuma, who are well known for the…
24 May 2013
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Part 1: The Window in Classical Architecture [The Hole]
…h these patterns are called “leaking windows” or “flower windows.” Just as they are called “openwork…
09 Jan 2018