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Modern Japanese architectural history, animated into mere minutes

By Rain Noe - January 22, 2008

in Object Culture

Though it did poorly at the box office, Peter Berg's The Kingdom boasted an ambitious opening credit sequence that condensed Saudi Arabian history into roughly 200 seconds with bold graphics and video clips. Maya whiz Nobuo Takahashi did something similar in 2006 with "Musashino Plateau" and "Japan," illustrating that country's postwar housing bubble through architectural animations. Buildings unfurl, stack and wriggle into ever-greater heights in what looks like an architect's dream--and a contractor's nightmare.

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Narfotic

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Does anyone know which firm did the sequence for The Kingdom?
I was blown away by it and watched it about 10 times. Stunning graphics...
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Luke

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Thanks for posting these, very fascinating.
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