Gherkin Watch: July

Despite the exhausting heat and humidity of midsummer Tokyo, the Gherkin shows no signs of withering.

In Oddly Enough by Ashley Rawlings 2007-07-28 print

The Gherkin has grown substantially since it was last photographed in April.Seen next to the Yasuda Kasai Kaijo building.

There seems to be some disagreement among the builders as to how far they've got...... these two signs on opposite sides of the construction site make different claims.

The facade of the Gherkin contrasted with the facade of Shinjuku Center Building.The Gherkin starts to make its presence felt in the Shinjuku streetscape.

Ashley Rawlings

Ashley Rawlings. After a year of studying painting and mixed media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, he did his BA in Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he was a research student in the history of Japanese postwar art at Sophia University, and worked as a freelance editor, writer and translator. In addition to being editor of TABlog from 2006 to 2008, he contributed regularly to online and printed publications such as the Japan Times, ART iT.jp, Saatchi Online, ArtReview, ArtAsiaPacific and Artforum.com. He is also the editor of Art Space Tokyo, a 272-page guide to the Tokyo art world published by Chin Music Press in 2008. In 2009 he moved to New York, where he works as features editor of ArtAsiaPacific. » See other writings

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