Doobybrain.com (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
In the suburbs of Nagano, Japan, Hiroki Tanabe built a beautiful dental clinic that also serves as the home for the resident dentist. The building is divided into 3 shells and 2 open courtyards (located between the shells) with each shell serving as the house, the waiting room, and the dental clinic. Large windows allow natural [...]
Home Trends | Decoration | Gardenin (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
This is a complex building that consists of a dental clinic and a dentist residence, located in the suburbs of Nagano, Japan this site was surrounded by a rice fields and reach orchards. The house was built using a concrete plate 300 millimeters thick forms zigzag structure. Each shell has different functions inside, residence, clinic [...]
Japundit (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Every seven years, at the temple of Zenko-ji in Nagano City they reveal a statue that is normally kept hidden. The statue is a 13th Century replica of a Buddhist statue which supposedly was the first Buddhist statue to officially come to Japan in the 6th Century. read more
Ionarts (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
# 9 - New Release Mahler, Lied von der Erde, Kent Nagano, Klaus Florian Vogt, Christian Gerhaher, Sony 750821G.Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde,K.Nagano / K.F.Vogt, C.Gerhaher / Orchestre Symphonique de MontréalSony.com .co.uk .de .frI was debating heavily with myself whether to put this disc into the Best of 2009, and not one of the discs that will make the “Almost List”....
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | yesterday
... on the topic of unique temple bells, here’s a clip of a bell at a temple in the town of Shinano, Nagano prefecture: The bell is actually a rock. The temple used to have a real metal bell, but it was taken and melted down by the government in 1942 because of wartime material shortages. During the war, a rock was hung in place of the bell. The owners of the temple have decided not to replace...
Grievous Bodily Charm (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a scene for inspiration. Stunning, unique vocalists like Fatima , Jack Davey of J*Davey , Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon , Stacy Epps , Shunaise , Andreya Triana are pushing soul music forward with producers like Flako , Floating Points , Sa-Ra , Bonobo , Madlib and Oddisee at the helm. The results are bliss filled to say the least, touching on elements of hip hop, jazz, funk, soul and electronica....
Freshome (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Probably one of the last things that comes to mind when looking at this building is the fact that it is actually a modern dentist office. We decided to show it to you today due to its unusual architecture and style. Located in Nagano, the construction belongs to Hiroki Tanabe, a talented architect from Japan. [...] Did you know that you can follow Freshome.com on ?
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Over the last 22 years we have had many guests visiting our woods up here in the Kurohime hills of Nagano Prefecture. However, their numbers have shot up since we converted our holdings into being The C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust in 2002. Up until now, guests have been entertained in the humble hut of our forester, Mr. Matsuki, seated on a couple of low benches with a woodstove between and...
krishpatel1212@gmail | 12/04/2009
... market since the league allowed its players to participate starting at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... on DVD for a while, but a new CD set (Harmonia Mundi), with a different cast as conducted by Kent Nagano, presents it in a different light. Janacek’s bizarre sci-fi “The Excursions of Mr. Broucek” gets the long-awaited big-label treatment (DG). Still, most of the opera action has moved to DVD. One of the season’s best is Patrice Chereau’s celebrated production of Janacek’s “From the House...
Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technolog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... from Toride ( Dragon Quest IX: Hoshizora no Mamoribito) 3. 47-year-old male company employee from Nagano (8 musical tracks from Victor Entertainment , SME Records , Sony Music Records, Avex Entertainment ) 4. 23-year-old male company contract employee from Sayama (music from Ai Otsuka and Kobukuro , Back to the Future Part III, Death Note , Death Note: The Last Name , others) 5. 37-year-old...
Lifeskate (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... which begins tomorrow. [ Axels, Loops and Spins ] 2010 Worlds will be in Turin, Italy. 2011 in Nagano, Japan. 2012 in Nice, France. [ AP ] Gift ideas for the figure skating coach in your life. Please...nothing skating-related. [ Ice Mom's Adventures in Figure Skating ] Getting up close and personal with John and Sinead Kerr , British ice dancing champions. [ BBC ] U.S. women struggle before...
