kata

a couple of primal screams from kobayashisan, just before the friday afternoon clean-up, way earlier than 'expected'...
“jansan!”
“we won!”

soon the “kataaaa” (we won) phonecalls, tsushimasan rushes back to the office, everyone with an improvized beer in hand, faces with ear to ear smiles but radiant with disbelief. slowly (but quickly) we try to realize what’s going on... baby duck kmdw kicks the combined asses of pelli, rogers and ban, and wins a project for a one hundred meter tall tower, downtown tokyo...
let’s print the email. and reread it.



tsushimasan and kobayashisan with a preliminary victory sign during model pix session

only a day before, the four of us had carried the model, projector and booklets to omotesando to present our project to the developer and his engineers. we were not even sure if they would conclude the review sessions before the end of the week...
after imagining and drawing and presenting a lot of invisible buildings and cities over the last couple of years, it’s hard to believe this one now really gets built. somehow the logic escapes me...

some more thoughts as the dust has settled.