Japanese Timber Framing Members Repurposed as Street Furniture

As someone who reveres timber framing, this is kind of painful to see. However, I suppose it's better that the pieces are seen and used as street furniture rather than discarded. These are public benches outside a train station in Otsu, the capital of Japan's Shiga Prefecture. "In the vicinity of the project site, many old posts and beam materials were left behind from demolishing old houses, and the materials were waiting to be discarded," writes design/build firm Tank. "In this project,...