Luxury and Chapels in Tokyo
The construction of remarkable architectural objects for international big luxury brands has accelerated the past few years in the Land of the Rising Sun. The emergence of purely commercial and non-religious wedding chapels has become a Japanese idiosyncrasy. These two trends reflect two different approaches of global contemporary architecture. The quality of experimental research in luxury flagship stores contrasts with the dreadful pastiche of the Gothic style of the weddings chapels for various reasons that will be explored here. Born in 1967, Taro Igarashi holds a PhD in engineering. He is an historian and architecture critic. He teaches at the University of Tohoku in Sendai, Japan.
