Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has designed PokoPoko as a clubhouse and activity centre surrounded by forest for the Risonare Nasu hotel in rural Japan.
Built near the town of Nasu in the shadow of the Mount Nasu volcanoes, the clubhouse is set within a forest clearing between the hotel s two existing accommodation blocks.
The PokoPoko clubhouse is part of the Risonare Nasu hotel The concept of the project was to create a fairytale building in a clearing of the forest, said Klein Dytham Architecture co-founder Mark Dytham. We wanted the building to peek out between the trees and become an icon in the forest, as well as a landmark for the hotel when seen from the road that leads up to it, he told Dezeen.
Press Release – NZ Maritime Museum
In keeping with the fast pace of current America’s Cup racing, the New Zealand Maritime Museum is staging its own PechaKucha America’s Cup-themed evening entitled
It Takes a Village on the 3rd of March.
Creatives and experts line up to each riff in under seven minutes and referring to only 20 slides on the many and intricate elements of America’s Cup racing and campaigns, from the design of the technologically advanced 1851-schooner
America, to the art of photographing the foiling challengers and defender on the Waitematā Harbour in 2020-21.
Yacht-designer, America’s Cup Hall of Fame inductee, and according to the lippy and starry Cup-veteran Dennis Connor ‘the best brain in yachting’ Tom Schnackenberg will deal to the evolution of Auld Mug yachts over the competition’s 170-year history. Hamish Ross, the lawyer who wrote a doctorate on Cup legalities, will stick to his knitting as well as point out some of the race’s peculi
It
Takes a Village on the 3rd of March.
Creatives and
experts line up to each riff in under seven minutes and
referring to only 20 slides on the many and intricate
elements of America’s Cup racing and campaigns, from the
design of the technologically advanced 1851-schooner
America, to the art of photographing the foiling
challengers and defender on the Waitematā Harbour in
2020-21.
Yacht-designer, America’s Cup Hall of Fame
inductee, and according to the lippy and starry Cup-veteran
Dennis Connor ‘the best brain in yachting’ Tom
Schnackenberg will deal to the evolution of Auld Mug yachts
over the competition’s 170-year history. Hamish Ross, the