This week, our Sneaker Sunday feature focuses on a brand we hold dear: Onitsuka Tiger. Celebrating 75 years of innovation, style, and cultural impact, Onitsuka Tiger has consistently pushed the boundaries of footwear and fashion. We admire their dedication to quality and design, and we’re excited to share details of their monumental anniversary celebration.

Designer: Onitsuka Tiger

Established in 1949 by Kihachiro Onitsuka, Onitsuka Tiger has made a significant mark in the streetwear scene with its iconic sneakers. The Japanese brand gained notable pop culture prominence when Uma Thurman’s character wore Onitsuka Tiger sneakers in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” series. The yellow and black ensemble, inspired by Bruce Lee’s legendary Mexico 66 trainers featured in his final film, “Game of Death,” highlighted the brand’s blend of heritage and contemporary style.

Onitsuka Tiger marks its 75th anniversary with an extraordinary event on the historic Champs-Élysées in Paris, showcasing the “HÔTEL Onitsuka Tiger.” This unique event is housed in an 18th-century building, a significant structure on this prestigious avenue, typically closed to the public. This exclusive venue, set to face the brand’s future flagship store scheduled to open in July 2025, will be the heart of the celebration.

HÔTEL Onitsuka Tiger in Paris

The exterior of the building is a stunning example of classic architecture, adorned with Onitsuka Tiger’s bold and modern branding. The iconic Tiger Yellow is prominently displayed in the decorations and banners, creating a striking contrast against the historic stone facade. Large banners and signage with the brand’s name and logo are prominently placed, inviting visitors to enter this immersive experience.

HÔTEL Onitsuka Tiger in Paris

Upon entering, guests are greeted with a vibrant yellow theme that extends throughout the venue. This consistent color scheme ties together the various elements of the event, from the decor to the exhibits. The lobby features a sleek, modern design juxtaposed with historic architectural details, blending the old with the new to embody the spirit of Onitsuka Tiger.

Hôtel Onitsuka Tiger in Paris

The event includes various exhibitions showcasing the brand’s rich history and innovative future. A display of archival shoes chronicles the evolution of Onitsuka Tiger over the past 75 years. Each pair tells a story, from the first shoes that launched the brand to the game-changing designs that expanded its global reach. Alongside these, a special photo exhibition traces the brand’s trajectory, offering visitors a visual journey through its significant milestones.

The Yellow Tiger Café is nestled within the premises, where guests can indulge in Japanese culinary delights. The café’s vibrant yellow decor aligns with the event’s overall theme, providing a cohesive and immersive dining experience. Menu items are carefully crafted to reflect the brand’s Japanese heritage, offering a unique taste of its cultural roots.

The Yellow Tiger Café: Featuring cuisine by chef Yoji Tokuyoshi

The “HÔTEL Onitsuka Tiger Residents (Partners)” program features various artists presenting cultural artworks and performances. These contributions add a layer of depth to the event, celebrating the intersection of fashion, art, and culture that defines Onitsuka Tiger.

Left: YUJA WANG: Grammy-winning pianist at Onitsuka Tiger’s 75th anniversary. Right: YOJI TOKUYOSHI: Michelin-starred chef overseeing YELLOW TIGER CAFÉ at Hôtel Onitsuka Tiger.

Left: Yutaro Inagaki: Emerging artist blending Japanese and Western styles, creating live at HÔTEL Onitsuka Tiger for the 2025 Champs-Élysées flagship. Right: Maïa Barouh: Japanese-French artist curating local talent at Hôtel Onitsuka Tiger.

“HÔTEL Onitsuka Tiger” will run from Monday, July 22, 2024, to Saturday, August 17, 2024, and is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, except on Saturday, August 3. Located at 25 Avenue des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris, France, admission is free, but advance booking is required. Reservations can be made through the company’s webpage: Onitsuka Tiger 75th Anniversary.

Meanwhile, in Tokyo, the “Onitsuka Tiger 75th Anniversary Event in TOKYO” will express the brand’s past, present, and future as it progresses toward its 100th anniversary. This event will feature a photo exh ibition of 75 pairs of archival shoes, each telling its own story. Highlights will include the inaugural pair that launched the brand, the pair that revolutionized its market position, and those that spread its influence globally.

The Tokyo celebration will also premiere art pieces inspired by Onitsuka Tiger, blending creativity and innovation. A short movie tour of Onitsuka Tiger stores worldwide will be presented using cutting-edge computer graphics, XR technology, and motion capture, providing an immersive experience of the brand’s global presence. Additionally, the latest collection will be featured in a special installation, highlighting the brand’s continuous evolution.

CONCEPT MOVIE: Immerse yourself in Onitsuka Tiger’s journey, showcased at the significant milestone of its 75th anniversary, and discover its pursuit of the future in Paris.

Visitors will have the exclusive opportunity to see five new 75th-anniversary items unveiled at the event. These redesigned, modern reinterpretations of iconic models reflect the brand’s journey through its birth, growth, challenges, and evolution.

The event will run from Friday, August 9, 2024, to Sunday, August 25, 2024. Opening hours are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with the last admission at 6:30 p.m. On the final day, August 25, the event will conclude at 5 p.m., with the last admission at 4:30 p.m. The event will be held at 6-14-2 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Admission is free, but priority is given to those with advance reservations. Each person is limited to one reservation, which can be secured through the official Onitsuka Tiger app for seamless access to the venue.

For more information and to make reservations, please visit the company’s webpage: Onitsuka Tiger 75th Anniversary.

These dual celebrations in Paris and Tokyo honor Onitsuka Tiger’s rich history and set the stage for its future, reflecting its enduring legacy and forward-thinking vision. Join us in celebrating Onitsuka Tiger’s remarkable journey and future aspirations at these landmark events. It’s a fitting tribute to a brand that continues to inspire and innovate, connecting its past, present, and future in unforgettable experiences.

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Dezeen School Shows: a community-led design for an outdoor learning space is included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at the University of Southern California.

Also included is a project promoting the sustainable restoration of landscapes using cotton and an office space prioritising a tranquil work environment.

University of Southern California

Institution: University of Southern California
School: School of Architecture
Course: Master of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism

School statement:

“Landscapes are the dynamic synthesis of natural systems, sociocultural forces and the physical material of the constructed world.

“The USC Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism (MLA+U) prepares students to be leaders ready to take on challenges of climate change and environmental injustice through the design and planning of landscapes across scales.

“Landscape architecture is a broad field that encompasses the design of a complex range of environments outside our buildings.

“Our program is focused on the public realm, spanning scales of impact from site design to urban design and infrastructure to territorial responses to climate stress that impact our immediate region and around the globe.

“With access to one of the most culturally and environmentally diverse geographies in the world – a biodiversity hotspot within an hour’s drive from the Pacific Ocean, the San Gabriel Mountains and the western edge of the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts – Southern California offers a robust laboratory from which to learn, while offering applications all over the globe.

“The program has formalised its priority areas in environmental, social and climate justice through the Landscape Justice Initiative.

“The initiative strengthens the program’s standing commitment to applied research and practice in communities that design has not historically reached.

“It includes Test Plot, a program focused on the future of land care.

“The Landscape Futures Lab offers a rigorous curriculum in biodesign and material experimentation and the Los Angeles River Integrated Design Lab provides a hydraulic modelling facility that engages students first-hand with the complex hydrological pressures of urbanisation today.

“Students graduate from the MLA+U program with a proactive toolkit to address the impacts of climate stress on vulnerable humans, species and natural systems.”

Textile Landscapes by Anna Avdalyan

“The project explores the material qualities of cotton as a historically significant non-food crop in the Tulare Lake bed where unsustainable agricultural methods adopted over the years led to the lake’s degradation and subsequent water crises.

“It addresses the urgent need for innovative, sustainable solutions.

“Textile Landscapes develops sustainable practices for the restoration of the lake via a circular material ecology approach.

“By examining cotton secondary cellulose and its capacity as a functional filler for biocomposites, a new methodology reimagines the ecological context of cotton cultivation, habitat restoration and water quality infrastructure.

“The project articulates a comprehensive strategy for environmental stewardship at landscape and material levels.”

Student: Anna Avdalyan
Course: MLA Third Year Design Research
Tutor: Alison B Hirsch
Email: aavdalya[at]usc.edu

Fallows No More by Viraj Chauhan

“This project proposes a framework strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of large-scale agricultural land fallowing in California’s Central Valley, as a result of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SMGA) that limits groundwater depletion.

“Traditional design and advanced technology tools were developed to investigate alternative agricultural practices to maintain local employment and food security.

“Incentives to protect and restore natural systems, replenish groundwater, increase flood capacity and improve crop yields are explored and tools developed to more effectively communicate options to local farmers policymakers.”

Student: Viraj Chauhan
Course: MLA Third Year Design Research
Tutor: Alison B Hirsch
Email: vcchauha[at]usc.edu

Allensworth Agricultural Experiment Station by Nina Weithorn

“This project investigates holistic and community-based techniques for food-producing landscapes focused on ecological and social health.

“Waste materials are repurposed to increase food sovereignty in the first community founded, financed and governed by Black Americans.

“Agricultural research in soil revitalisation will restore the town’s role as the Tuskegee of the West.

“This student was named the LAF National Olmsted Scholar and will be continuing to work with CBOs on this project.”

Student: Nina Weithorn
Course: MLA Third Year Design Research
Tutor: Alison B Hirsch
Email: weithorn[at]usc.edu

Unveiling Metal Marvels and Global Garbage Games by Kavya Gudihal

“Traditional metals, rare earth substances and high-tech metal mining are increasingly creating scarred landscapes, degraded ecologies and tremendous amounts of mining waste across the globe.

“This project explores restoration strategies based on soil remediation, phytoremediation, water reclamation and inventive uses of subterranean voids to transform former wastelands into productive healthy ecologies.”

Student: Kavya Gudihal
Course: MLA Year 2 Spring
Tutor: Aroussiak Gabrielian
Email: gudihal[at]usc.edu

Sun Study Thermal Comfort Analysis by Jordan Fucci

“The advanced media course uses Grasshopper and generative AI to build customised tools for site analysis and design.

“Students work through a series of exercises to develop modelling and visualisations to study topography, hydrology and ecological simulations.

“Generative AI is explored as a tool for design thinking.

“The final portion of the course takes GIS-based workflows into visualisations to test design strategies.”

Student: Jordan Fucci
Course: Advanced Media and Computation
Tutor: Xun Liu
Email: jordanef[at]usc.edu

Gateway to Payhhuunadu by Eva Malis

“The Owen’s Valley is infamous as the place where Los Angeles stole the water needed for a growing city in the early 20th century.

“The diversion of water from the natural rivers, creeks and the lake, along with land grabs and persecution of the native peoples completely changed the ecology of the area and erased the indigenous knowledge and practices of the Paiute and Shoshone people who managed the water and land for hundreds of years.

“The site design creates an immersive experience to tell the multi-faceted story of water in this valley.”

Student: Eva Malis
Course: MLA Third Year Fall
Tutor: Robyn Reed
Email: emalis[at]usc.edu

USC Village Sustainable Landscape Design by Yinshan Wang

“The University of Southern California developed the village as a mixed-use housing, retail and student services extension of the university park campus.

“A land banked parcel is currently developed as a natural turf lawn for recreation.

“Students in the planting design course imagined high performance, low water use, native and edible sustainable futures for this open space to serve the campus and surrounding community.”

Student: Yinshan Wang
Course: Planting Design
Tutor: Sally Reynolds
Email: yinshanw@usc.edu

Akuutet Learning Nursery – Community-Based Improvements by Adrian Porter, Eva Malis, Nina Weithorn, Joyce Ji and Jeremy Joo

“Students worked directly with community members to identify their priorities for preservation and design interventions.

“They led exercises in mapping and conceptual collage-making to provide participants with a wide range of methods to describe their values and priorities.

“The resulting design included native gardens, outdoor learning areas, picnic areas and bioswales.

“The community requested a locally native plant palette to expand biodiversity and habitat value.”

Students: Adrian Porter, Eva Malis, Nina Weithorn, Joyce Ji and Jeremy Joo
Course: Community Design, Preservation and Planning
Tutor: Melissa Guerrero
Emails: weithorn[at]usc.edu, adrianpo[at]usc.edu, emalis[at]usc.edu, joojerem[at]usc.edu and xiaocong[at]usc.edu

Dream Office Mumbai India by Viraj Chauhan

“In the tranquil outskirts of bustling Indian cities like Mumbai and Goa, our esteemed architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism firm is found.

“Here, connectivity to the world through international airports and robust public transport is seamlessly combined with the serenity and leisure of being away from the urban hustle and bustle.

“The firm aims to offer solutions to our clients and operates in many fields, with teams led by professionals with various expertise.

“We seek to enable and envision a change for a better future – better living spaces for our people.

“These images were generated using Midjourney to envision the ideal practice environment for a young, multidisciplinary firm.”

Student: Viraj Chauhan
Course: Professional Practice for Landscape Architects
Tutor: Esther Margulies
Email: vcchauha[at]usc.edu

Lungs of the Dominguez Watershed by Mark Reid

“This project explored a landscape framework of nature-based solutions in the form of a civic space to allow the community of Carson to grow, adapt and change.

“The Dominquez watershed and channel have received far less attention than other infrastructural waterways in the Los Angeles region.

“The channelised creek flows through a series of heavily impacted, diversely populated small bedroom communities that, on their own, have little ability to determine a new and more climate resilient future in the lower watershed that is subject to urban flooding.”

Student: Mark Reid
Course: MLA Second Year Fall Urbanism
Tutor: Jessica Henson Olin
Email: reidm[at]usc.edu

Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and the University of Southern California. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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Chinese Studio ZZHK has completed G Clef Bridge, a pedestrian walkway across the Bailu River in Chengdu, which culminates in a spiralling ramp and viewpoint informed by musical notation.

The bridge connects the French-style town of Bailu – a popular tourist destination also known as Bailu Music Town – with the Diamond Music Hall on the opposite river bank.

ZZHK drew on the area’s status as a destination for music as well as the form of the river to design the bridge, which wraps around a stage at its centre.

“Bailu Music Town lacked a central landmark embodying its theme,” studio founder Zhang Ke told Dezeen. “We aimed to create a landmark and a spiritual fortress.”

“Fulfilling the basic traffic function was essential, but resolving the stylistic conflict between the two banks and enhancing the musical theme of the scenic area were higher objectives,” he continued.

“The modern, geometric Diamond Music Hall and the French-style music town create a stark contrast, posing a significant challenge, yet offering an opportunity for modern design and materials.”

The focal point of the bridge is a spiralling ramp on the river’s eastern bank, which ZZHK said is based on the shape of a treble clef.

Intended as both a space to pass through and to dwell, this spiral creates a continuous route that offers both views out over the surrounding landscape and to a circular stage for music performances at its base.

A shallow pool of water separated from the river by a low wall surrounds this stage, creating the impression of it floating on the river.

“The most crucial design approach was ensuring ‘flow’,” explained Ke. “Maintaining an overall smoothness in form, achieving seamless integration with the surrounding environment and existing buildings, and harmonising the tangible structure with its reflection in water.”

Connecting to this central spiral, an elevated section of the bridge leads above an existing road to a plaza in the town. The longest section of the structure leads across the river to a promenade in front of the Diamond Music Hall.

The structure of G Clef Bridge is a deliberately simple combination of steel columns and box girders, chosen to echo the structure of the nearby music hall and emphasise its sculptural form.

Underneath the walkway, lighting allows the entire bridge to be illuminated at night to create a recognisable landmark for the town.

Other bridges recently featured on Dezeen include a minimalist concrete bridge in Prague and the “anti-iconic” Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux.

The photography is by Arch-Exist Photography unless stated otherwise.

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South Korean studio Niceworkshop has designed a pared-back interior for a cafe in Seoul, where concrete walls and stainless-steel furnishings are finished to mimic wood.

Set in the city’s multicultural Itaewon district, HaHouse Cafe operates alongside an exhibition space on the floor above, designed by Niceworkshop founder Hyunseog Oh in 2022.

The initial demolition phase revealed a pair of concrete walls that informed the spatial arrangement of both the gallery and the cafe, as well as influencing the raw material palette applied across both interiors.

Oh used concrete, metal and wood to reference the project’s urban setting, adding natural textures to the manmade materials to create a sense of visual cohesion.

“The wood inside HaHouse Cafe serves as the basis for the texture that expresses nature,” the designer explained. “It bridges the modern urban environment with nature, symbolising their coexistence.”

The interior applies the same principles as Oh’s Neo-Naturalism furniture series, which features a wood grain pattern etched onto geometric stainless-steel seats and tables.

The use of concrete for the walls and ceiling was informed by the two existing walls that delineate the space. Concrete applied to the surfaces was stamped with wood to create a natural texture.

The serving counter and utility spaces along one wall are clad in aluminium with a subtly reflective satin finish.

A pair of doors leading to a storage area and restroom feature reflective surfaces that Oh sanded by hand to create an opaque frame around the edges.

“Through the opaque reflective surface, I wanted to show both the artificial nature inside the space and the real nature outside the window,” he told Dezeen.

Much of the furniture used in the cafe was created especially to complement the interior’s pared-back material palette.

Expanding on the Neo-Naturalism furniture series from 2023, the chairs and lights were engraved using a Dremel tool to create a wood grain pattern.

The NN tables are made from solid ash and red oak, bringing warmth and tactility to the otherwise austere space. The legs and tops are joined at the corners using simple nuts and bolts.

Other furniture items include the NN stools, which are informed by standard-sawn timber logs. Four of the 20-by-20 centimetre sections are combined to create a stool with a concave seat.

According to Oh, the main objective with the HaHouse project was to create a cultural space that appeals to a variety of people and provides them with a new spatial experience.

Previous experimental projects from Niceworkshop include a furniture collection made using skyscraper formwork salvaged from construction sites that was presented at this year’s Milan design week.

Oh founded his studio in 2021 after completing a bachelor’s degree in interior architecture at Soongsil University. He works alongside Sangmyeong Yoo, who manages the office’s business affairs.

The photography is courtesy of HaHouse Cafe.

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Even though I am a “certified” coffee addict (if certified means drinking it more than twice a day), I am not one of those that buys expensive equipment and whose kitchen looks better than most coffee shops. But for the true blue connoisseurs, there are brands that evoke a certain joy and Feima is one of those. However, not everyone can afford such a legendary machine since it’s really meant for establishments or rich coffee “professionals.”

Designer: Faema

Good news though for fans of the Faema E61 espresso machine as they are releasing a consumer-level and single-phase version that can adorn your coffee nook at home. The Faema E61 Cult is a version of the legendary machine but still can be described with the words “heritage, historic, and trendsetter”. While it’s meant for homes, it still is a professional machine so it needs to be installed by a specialized technician since it has to be connected to your water supply.

Having the Faema E61 Cult on your kitchen counter makes it look like you’re a serious coffee brewer since it carries the same expensive and premium vibe of the original. It has the chrome aesthetic down pat with wooden elements added to its levers and knobs. There is also a warming rack on top that has a transparent brown finish for its cup guard. The iconic panel is still there which has made the Faema brand “unmistakable since 1961”.

If you know your way around complicated but premium espresso machines, then this is probably something aspirational but useful for you. Now if you’re like me that just uses coffee makers or capsule machines, then this will be purely an aesthetic showpiece, albeit an expensive one.

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