Hasta La Ideas

I’m starting to see a disturbing trend in the blogosphere, whereby amazing projects are featured with absolutely no mention made of the designer(s) behind them. A good case in point is the beautiful Sugamo Shinkin bank in Shimura, Japan, completed in March and designed by Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design (and incorrectly credited on several sites as being by “Sugamo Shinkin Design,” which does not exist). Though born and educated in France, Moureaux moved to Tokyo in the mid-’90s and acquired a Japanese First Class Architect’s license by the early ’00s.

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