If you are work­ing near Willis Street today you could use your lunch hour to sam­ple two very dif­fer­ent exhi­bi­tions.

The Japan­ese Embassy on Lev­el 18 and 19 of the Mages­tic Cen­tre on 100 Willis Street is always worth a vis­it to give you that thrill of sur­vey­ing the city from the floor to ceil­ing glass win­dows of a shiny tall build­ing.

Today is the last day of the a pho­tog­ra­phy exhi­bi­tion at the Japan­ese embassy, Gaz­ing at the Con­tem­po­rary World: Japan­ese Pho­tog­ra­phy from the 1970s to the Present.

Cross­ing the road you can vis­it a sound instal­la­tion that has been set up in vacant com­mer­cial space at 141 Willis Street.  Pop­u­lar Arche­ol­o­gy: A Sound Archive is one part of larg­er project called Let­ting Space that is look­ing pret­ty excit­ing.

Pop­u­lar Arche­ol­o­gy is focused on redun­dant tech­nol­o­gy and is con­struct­ed with a vari­ety of tape decks play­ing tape loops of dis­in­te­grat­ing frag­ments of New Zealand sin­gles that made the top 10 between 1967 and 1994 in a wall of sound com­pris­ing over 30 tape play­ers.  You have until 9 May to catch this show but it would make a nice jux­ta­po­si­tion with the show across the road for today only.