Tag: Glass | The Plan

Toyo Ito & Associates

Going beyond Modernism, creating “living” spaces that impart emotions, eschewing the soulless box-like buildings of modern-day consumerism. This, for Toyo I

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21_21 Design Sight

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

Tokyo Midtown, a very recent major urban development, is located in Azabu, part of the Yamanote district situated west of the Imperial Palace near the Roppongi

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Heisei, Tea Ceremony House

Ken Yokogawa Architect & Associates

The building continues the ancient tea ceremony tradition in the contemporary Heisei era, the period that began in 1989 with the death of Emperor Hirohito and t

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Yusuhara Town Hall

Kengo Kuma and Associates

The appearance, smell, texture and even sound of wood are all sensations Kengo Kuma wants to convey with his architecture. For Kuma, the architect’s mission i

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Seijo Town Houses

SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

This Kazuyo Sejima project is doubtless a prototype, one in which the architect is proposing what she calls “new spatial experiences”.Indeed this residentia

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The White Chapel

Jun Aoki & Associates

A highly original work this wedding chapel by Jun Aoki, a Japanese architect who is gaining increasing kudos on the international scene. Aoki is especially conc

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Nicolas G. Hayek Center

Shigeru Ban Architects

The Ginza district dates back to the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1867). In 1869, when the city known as Edo became Tokyo, the area was still a conglomeration o

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at 103 + Bgp Arquitectura

BGP Arquitectura | AT 103

The Avenida Insurgentes is a major thoroughfare running north/south through Mexico City and intersecting, at an oblique angle, the Paseo de la Reforma, the prin

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Bronx County Hall of Justice

Rafael Viñoly Architects

Courthouses are one of the most complex of building typologies to plan, yet their functions demand simplicity. Back in the 1930s, American courthouses were few

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Diagnostic and Therapeutic Centre

Estudio.Entresitio

In recent years, Spanish practice Entresitio has tackled the architectural issues posed by building for social services, healthcare and diagnostics provision. I

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2 Harbour Buildings

Bolles+Wilson

Urban and architectural renewal has transformed Münster’s canal-harbour into a typical post-industrial neighbourhood. The loft floor plan of the new building

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Casa Futura: Sustainable Design

Kevin deFreitas Architects

Amid the building and urban sprawl of California’s San Diego a one-family residence is experimenting with “sustainable architecture”. The governing princi

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