Architectural Icons
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description: Online retailer of vibrant, beautifully crafted merchandise celebrating iconic architecture worldwide. Offers mugs, t-shirts, prints, and other products featuring architectural designs.
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Umeda Sky Building Cork-back Coaster
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description: Cork-back coaster celebrating the Umeda Sky Building, Hiroshi Hara's high-rise masterpiece of Japanese "bubble era" Postmodern and High-Tech architecture that was completed in 1993. Two interlinked towers stacked with imagery of clouds, and the profiles of smaller architectures, like literal villages in the sky. Hara called the giant “crater” in the bridge between the two buildings—the famous Floating Garden Observatory (Kuchu Teien)—a “’vestige’ remaining from where a spaceship had flown away”, a never to be used docking platform through the centre of which dramatically rise a pair of outdoor glass escalators, high above the city. When not reflective glass, its fragmented, collage-like curtain wall looks like it’s made from a whole collection of varied, flattened buildings. As was Hara’s intention (the original scheme was to be called “Sky City”) the project grows out of the Osaka skyline like a Calvino-esque imaginary extension of the city, levitating over Umeda as an impossibly odd reminder of a time that itself seems equally impossible when looked back upon from the mindset of today. The displayed price is for a single item. For all our Umeda Sky building products click HERE For all our buildings in Japan click HERE For all our Postmodern buildings click HERE • Hardboard MDF 0.12″ (3 mm)• Cork 0.04″ (1 mm)• High-gloss coating on top• Size: 3.74″ × 3.74″ × 0.16″ (95 × 95 × 4 mm)• Rounded corners• Water-repellent, heat-resistant, and non-slip• Easy to cleanThe displayed price is for a single item.This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!
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