BLALYS is an apartment block designed by Japanese architects Suga Architects Office in Toyonaka city, Osaka, Japan.
The building comprises 34 apartments.
See the project website for more information (in Japanese).
Photographs by Yoshiharu Matsumura.
“A scale exterior puts out and the unknown has put out feeling of quality like the becoming it organics. The light is improved because of blue light at night and a different space is produced.”
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Posted by Rose Etherington
August 8th, 2008 at 4:34 am
i couldn’t decipher the intentions.
August 8th, 2008 at 6:24 am
For some reasons, this looks like a faily sad place to live.
I see where the architect was trying to get, but there is a lot more to explore to get to the essential.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:09 am
seems to be very depressing…. exposed concrete should be used very carefully to create a dynamic and sharp look, which is completely missing here!
….the pictures convey a overtly massed, clumsy structure….i’d never wanna live there, at least.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I donno what some people,or architect and developpers, like this kind of Bunker so much. It is killing… to live in…?
I would not do this, but what about you
August 8th, 2008 at 9:18 am
A Modernized Bedrock!…where’s fred and wilma?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am
The Pattern doesn’t even turn the corner properly……?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:36 am
In the apartment in Osaka, I think that it is a reformative design.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:13 am
I like it
August 8th, 2008 at 11:14 am
A vist to Suga’s uber cool web site will give a much better understanding of the project. One may see it as brooding but I like the quirkiness of it. As some other Japanese designs we have seen here, bathroom privacy seems to be considered an affectation.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:30 am
I saw it on the wab site that architet looked for serene sphere in the noisy Osaka Metropolis. I could imagine this.
But then this pattern is a noisy pattern….?
August 8th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
The courtyard & the interior images are beautiful.
August 8th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
It’s brutal.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
The water pool is kind of akward. I assume is not for swimming, jsut for decoration, eiter way looks cold, especially if it might be never hit by sunlight.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
sexy and brutal
August 9th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I like this project, rock architecture. Maybe it could be in Helsinki’s project ?
August 9th, 2008 at 11:26 am
This is one of the best housing designs I’ve seen in a long time but it doesn’t show from the pics on dezeen. Check out the website link and the pictures are amazing. Their bold use of materiality, especially concrete and wood, and well thought out lighting scheme make this such a unique and surprisingly comfortable and beautiful place to live. The denseness of design of views, moods, environments created make this place seem so rich.
August 9th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Ugliest. Apartments. Ever.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
fire escapes into the pool; how clever.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:32 am
a little bit spookie…
August 11th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Not enough contrast in materials for my taste.
August 13th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
the inner courtyard is interesting, but overall the color/texture is a big oppressive.
August 13th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
a “bit” oppressive.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
too many concrete, absorb heating and release at night
August 13th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Depress my ….
I think it is a beautiful piece of architecture…
August 18th, 2008 at 6:09 am
As the tanks roll into Georgia it’s time to declare—BRUTALISM IS BACK BABY! This time for a new millennium—All the spiritual oppression, but with twice the tehnology! Care to goose step Big Brother?