Dan Harkless' Image Album: photos/2000-11-19_to_2000-11-28--Japan/Japan00-034-Okazaki_sunset

And a nice (if skewed) shot of the inner-lit train with the sunset. BTW, seeing that building in the background reminds me — there are two aspects of (modern urban) Japanese architecture that are ubiquitous over there yet you rarely see over here, and I've been wondering why that is since my first visit to Japan.

The first is that buildings very often have their stairwells on the external part of the building, as that building there does, rather than within. The other is not exemplified as well by this building, but Japanese high-rises are often constructed in a cascading, or layered, style, where only one part of the building is full-height, and then on the floor below that the footprint will have a bit more square-footage, and then the floor below that will have a bit more, until a few floors down each floor takes up the full building footprint and the profile becomes rectangular. In the U.S., buildings are typically rectangular from top to bottom, with each floor having equivalent square-footage...

If anyone knows why buildings in Japan often have those two attributes, and why U.S. buildings usually don't, email me.

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		And a nice (if skewed) shot of the inner-lit train with the sunset. BTW, seeing that building in the background reminds me — there are two aspects of (modern urban) Japanese architecture that are ubiquitous over there yet you rarely see over here, and I've been wondering why that is since my first visit to Japan. The first is that buildings very often have their stairwells on the external part of the building, as that building there does, rather than within. The other is not exemplified as well by this building, but Japanese high-rises are often constructed in a cascading, or layered, style, where only one part of the building is full-height, and then on the floor below that the footprint will have a bit more square-footage, and then the floor below that will have a bit more, until a few floors down each floor takes up the full building footprint and the profile becomes rectangular. In the U.S., buildings are typically rectangular from top to bottom, with each floor having equivalent square-footage... If anyone knows why buildings in Japan often have those two attributes, and why U.S. buildings usually don't, email me.

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