The Wall of Nishihara by Sabaoarch

TOKYO – Narrow and less-than-ideally situated building sites are not wholly unusual in dense Japanese cities, but a 3-m wide plot, wedged between two roads in Tokyo’s Shibuya neighbourhood is certainly a rarity. This did not deter Sabaoarch from d
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