Tag: Asia | The Plan

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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Z58, Zhongtai Lighting Company Headquarters and Showroom

Kengo Kuma and Associates

The French Concession district of Shanghai is not unlike New York City’s Soho, a centrally located area with an eclectic mix of business and residential prope

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Beijing: a metropolis straddling past and future

The Beijing Olympics focused the world’s attention on a handful of headline buildings. Herzog & de Meuron’s National Stadium, Foster + Partners’ Airpo

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Emerging Chinese Firms

Studio Pei Zhu | Amateur Architecture | MAD | MADA S.P.A.M.

Talented young Chinese architects are beginning to win competitions for every kind of building, from high rises to campuses and civic centers, as well as tiny g

# China (1027) # Studio Pei Zhu # Amateur Architecture # MAD (15) # MADA S.P.A.M.

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Linked Hybrid

Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl loves China. Linked Hybrid is the first of four huge China projects designed by his practice to be completed. On many counts, it is Holl’s favouri

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Pearl Academy of Fashion

Morphogenesis

Around the world, architects are challenged to infuse new forms with the legacy of the past and the spirit of place. That has become a crucial issue in emerging

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