Below_ Tokyo’s metabolising city fabric in the Japanese Pavilion


physical effects of use and wear through a beautifully laconic array of ordinary objects and fittings, such as carpets and handrails. Neighbouring Netherlands (Giardini geography occasionally apes the real thing) focused on the reuse of vacant buildings expressed through a huge, celestial blue polystyrene model of a ‘city’ of empty buildings suspended in mid-air like a temporary sky. For Japan, Yoshiharu


Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow


and SANAA’s Ryue Nishizawa showed a series of delightful house proposals in the context of Tokyo’s ‘metabolising’ city fabric. Unlike Europe, with its historic city cores and grand plans, Tokyo consists of a fluid aggregation of independent buildings or ‘grains’. France under Dominique Perrault also homed in on the city, this time as a wider urban terrain, with an installation of films and texts, though the vigorously flickering walls (doubtless unintentionally)


induced minor queasiness in visitors. Russia’s contribution was a survey of redundant Soviet-era factories in the former textile town of Vyshny Volochyok, investigating how derelict land might be brought back into use. A familiar topic of post-industrial regeneration, perhaps, but it’s estimated that there are 300 Vyshny Volochyoks across Russia, housing 10-15 million people. At the less careworn end of the curatorial spectrum,


The Architectural Review / October 2010 / Marginalia 093


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