Blog #4 :AGO

   Hi, I’m Junsei Goseki. This time I’ll introduce the Frank Gehry’s latest work,

‘Art Gallery of Ontario’, which people usually call it ‘AGO’ in short.
It is located in Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada.
I can see China town and Victoria University near this museum on the Geogle Map and it’s really attractive to me, To imagine that we have such a beautiful art museum near our university, it’s so wonderful.

    This has been used for museum since it was opened in 1900.
In November 2008, it was under construction for expansion of building and Frank
Gehry was assigned to take charge of this project.
Though Frank was born in Toronto, this was his first work in Canada, this is also his latest work. It’s reopened in November 2008, it took only 3days that sixty eight thousand people visited here with the service that offered free-charge admission and extended its open hours.

    About exhibitions, AGO is famous for its abundant collections of Canadian art, Inuit and Native art from past and present. For other representative art works, there are Henry Moore, who was a British sculptor, Picasso and European art.

    I think it’s a great collection of works by great artists and the building itself is also a beautiful work, so it’s compilation of great art works.

    As I see pictures of inside and outside appearance of this museum, tough I don’t know much about it, it seems to be resourcefully built that we’ve learned in a lecture during our class. Because it seems that they used simple and common steel and wood frames for design. Of course I think they’re sound and also beautiful.

I’m thinking I’ll go to Canada to study next year. I’m not sure yet about it but if I chose to go Toronto, I would never miss a chance to go here.

You can get more information hereAGO Official Website

Blog #3: Election in Greece

Hi, I'm Saori Nakagawa. On June 17, Greece's government will hold election. I suppose that all of you know the nation is facing financial crisis, and it is causing the big problem in the euro zone. The election will be held between the one party in Greece which claims to keep financial austerity as ever and the other which claims to take austerity away. The result of this election could change the future of EU, especially the nations in Europe which have been helping Greece financially, thus people all over the world are paying much attention to it. I think that the election could affect Japanese economic as well as European one, so Japanese people should keep an eye on this event more carefully.

Link is here.

#2: Tokyo Skytree

      Hi, I’m Junsei. This week, I went to Tokyo Skytree.
It was very crowded regardless of weekdays, though it was surely the highest building what I’ve ever seen in Japan.
I took the route from Oshiage Station to get Tokyo Skytree on foot.
It’s a great view to see the tower when you go up from the stairs of the station.
We still can feel an atmosphere of Shitamachi even though this modern building showed up there.
      Off course, I didn’t have the reservation for entering the tower, I just did shopping around there. I really felt Skytree can be a good sightseeing area for tourists because it’s near Asakusa which is so famous for tourists and I really want to introduce this place if I have guests from foreign countries.

      　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Sky Tree photo from Oshiage Station.

　　　　　If you take a route from Oshiage Station to Skytree, you can see this strange building.
When I saw it in the first place, I guessed it was a museum.
But it was not. Answer is here. Before you check the answer, let's guess what it is!
 The Answer for question