Tag: Japan | The Plan

Iida Archiship

Karuizawa, 170 kilometres north-west of Tokyo in the Japanese prefecture of Nagano, is a little town nestled at the foot of the active volcano Mount Asama. Luxu

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Museum of Kanayama Castle Ruin and Community Center

Kengo Kuma and Associates

The new Kanayama Museum and Community Center designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates is located in Ota, a little over a hundred kilometres north of Tokyo. The c

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Shinkansen Station

Makoto Sei Watanabe Architects

Japan's famous Shinkansen high-speed railway network was opened in 1964 between the major metropolitan areas of Tokyo and Osaka. It was subsequently expanded to

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Komyo-Ji Pure Land Temple

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

My brief was to reconstruct this 250 year old pure land temple of the Edo period in the city of Saijo, the gateway to Mount Ishizuchi, known for its mild clim

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Springtecture B

Shuhei Endo Architect Institute

In this structure, planar Renzokutai spirals forward to form the roof, walls, and floor, realising a “springtecture” of linked discontinuities. “Springt

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Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo

Fumihiko Maki & Associates

Tradition and spirituality come together at the site of the Izumo Taisha temple. Still today, as tradition demands, access to the temple is reserved for the Shi

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Meiso No Mori Municipal Funeral Hall

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

# Residential Building - Complex (592) # SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa (13) # Japan (110)

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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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