Taking 58,000 hours to complete the Tokyo Model and 39,000 hours for the New York model, these center pieces of the Mori building corporation's new Global City Exhibition in Tokyo are astounding.
"It took 130 model-makers eight months to create Roppongi Hills' opening exhibit, "The Global City". Spectacular 3D models of London, Berlin, Paris, Frankfurt, Chicago, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo include thousands of tiny houses with photographs of their facades pasted on. The show's climax is the100 square metre (1,000 square feet) Tokyo model. By an amazing coincidence, Roppongi Hills sits bang in its centre. As an ecological design principle, the "compact,vertical urban development" advocated by the show is preferable to US-style sprawl. But. Following Groucho Marx, we cannot imagine wanting to be admitted to a gated community devoted to art-and-design-as-happiness." states the Doors Of Perception. View of the Tokyo Model:
View of the New York model:
For more info the Models visit the Global City site which follows up from their equally indepth Mid-Tokyo Maps website... via Doors Of Perception
