Robert Day Architects Blog

Recently Robert Day Architects hosted 20 Japanese Architects from the Saitama Architects Association.

The group was only here for several days however they managed to pack a lot into a very short time. My former boss, Mr Kondo, and the Saitama Architects Association always spend a day with with us when we travel to Japan for our Architecture Tours so we were very happy to reciprocate. Mr Kondo and I met up the tour party in Sydney where we visited the new Surry Hills Library, Cadman’s Cottage and the Museum of Sydney to name a few places. The highlight was certainly the harbour lunch cruise. The next day we were shown around by two Sydney Architects, Steve Anders and Barbara Tarnawski, both of whom had met the Saitama Architects on a previous Japan Architecture Tour. We visited and number of new multi-residential housing projects and ended our day at Watson’s Bay. The following day we visited the Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre, Darling Harbour and the Sydney Opera House. Later that day we flew to Brisbane where we went the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) and then had dinner at the famous Breakfast Creek Hotel. On the way we stopped to view Brisbane City from Kangaroo Pt. For the last day, we went to Lone Pine and then had lunch at a great riverside seafood restaurant. We then walked along the river and through the Botanic Gardens before we boarded the bus to take them to the airport to fly back to Japan. Even though it was a very busy tour all the members of the Saitama Architects group enjoyed themselves. We look forward to seeing them again on our next Japan Architecture Tour in April 2011. Here are a few photographic highlights.