Once We Were Geographers

10/11/2025

28/10/2025

The decaying old buildings are still standing. The mould and algae resembles chinese ink on paper. The grainy expired film added to the discoloration.

27/10/2025

Quiet and commanding presence of KL's brutalist architecture at midnight - Lee Yan Lian building on expired fujifilm 35mm

15/06/2025

It was raining when I was in Gifu to visit the danchi. Tried walking down 8 floors of the iron stairs in one block and it was very slippery. The see-through grille parapet gives me vertigo! Gaps between units break up the monolith. Another block is made up of double level units, each lift serving only a few units hence giving residents privacy.

15/06/2025

Visited the danchi in Gifu which was designed by 4 female architects. This old overhead bridge with the curves caught my eyes the moment i got off the public bus as it contrasted with the hard lines of these brutalist new buildings.

06/06/2025

Looking forward to exploring this beautifully designed danchi in Gifu next week!

17/12/2024

Okuno Building is a well preserved modernist structure dating to the early Shōwa era. The space is tight which gives it its intimacy as one's gaze is forced to be up close to the interior hence seeing things in serendipitous frames.
35mm expired asa400 fujifilm on nikon f80 voigtlander 58mm lens.

16/12/2024

Kawasaki danchi on 35mm movie film #河原団地

15/12/2024

#河原団地

14/11/2024

The building lives on.

The Tokyo structure’s dismantling in 2022 saw a number of its capsules repurposed globally – even at Hong Kong’s M+ – fulfilling designer Kisho Kurokawa’s vision.

02/09/2024

Almost like the dystopian kowloon walled city. This block of public housing near mertajam has unique tall corridors connecting to split levels which is unseen in new flats now.