Tag: Architecture

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 (603) # 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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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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Slowtecture M - Tennis Dome

Shuhei Endo Architect Institute

This public building commissioned by the Hyogo Prefecture is located in Miki in parkland created after the devastating earthquake of Hanshin-Awaji in 1995. The

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CaixaForum

Herzog & de Meuron

Located in Madrid’s ‘museum mile’ where the Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums cluster, the CaixaForum designed by the Herzog & de Meur

# Spain (214) # Cultural center (476) # Herzog & de Meuron

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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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