New, by Ryue Nishizawa [read more]

“Construction in its full sense is always destruction as well” [read more]

Arata Isozaki ruining the Japan Pavilion at the 1996 Venice Architecture Biennale [read more]

Forcing the past upon the future [read more]

Shipping container housing for 188 displaced families in post-disaster Onagawa [read more]

Arata Isozaki and Anish Kapoor collaborate on an inflatable and transportable concert hall for Tōhoku [read more]

A new magazine of ‘romantic geography’ [read more]

A platform for mountain living [read more]

Genpei Akasegawa on art made by the city [read more]

Sydney artist Marian Tubbs tours Osaka’s architectural carcasses and renovated art spaces [read more]

An upcoming exhibition at Mori Museum in Tokyo looks at the Metabolist movement with regards to ‘dreams and visions of reconstruction in postwar and present-day Japan’ [read more]

Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA overcoming the tyranny of corners [read more]

The infinity of the unknown in Tadao Ando and James Turrell’s Minamidera [read more]

“What is embodied in photography is not a clear ‘knowledge of the whole’, but, rather, a ‘longing for the knowledge of the whole’.” – Naoya Hatakeyama [read more]

More Hiroshi Sugimoto monochromes against Tadao Ando’s untreated concrete walls on Naoshima [read more]

Sou Fujimoto freeing architecture from weightiness and permanence [read more]

A new museum on the small, remote island of Teshima in Japan’s Inland Sea by Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA and artist Rei Naito [read more]

Skywatching at James Turrell’s House of Light [read more]

Yuko Kamei marrying bodies, spaces, movement and stills  [read more]

Seven installations by contemporary Japanese architects [read more]

Hiroshi Naito’s architecture of light [read more]

When Yu Ogata and Ichiro Ogata Ono are not busy building buildings they photograph buildings others have built [read more]

A new photography museum designed by Hiroshi Sugimoto at the foothills of Mt Fuji [read more]

Kisho Kurokawa’s 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower, the world’s first large-scale modular building, is still standing – but only thanks to Japan’s current financial malaise [read more]

Out of consideration for the pristine landscape of Naoshima, Tadao Ando completely submerged his building for the Chichu Museum [read more]

Shinro Ohtake’s psychedelic sentō aims to reinvigorate the culture of public bathing and connect Naoshima’s local residents with the island’s ever increasing influx of visitors [read more]

Apparently mortality happens because people live in spaces that are too comfortable. Arakawa & Gins’ solution is to make buildings that leave people disoriented, alert, challenged and active, enabling them to ‘counteract the usual human destiny of having to die’ [read more]

In the Gifu Prefecture of Japan is Yoro Park, a site of reversible destiny by architecture/poetry duo Arakawa & Gins. Appropriately, they provide clear ‘directions for use’ [read more]

In the ancient city of Kyoto, the O House is a cylindric tower extending from a two-story home [read more]

“I wanted to make a space with very ambiguous borderlines, which has a fluctuation between local spaces and the overall space,” says Junya Ishigami of his new structure at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology [read more]

A cave-like structure that appears both open and closed, rough and smooth, heavy and floating, the onishimaki + hyakudayuki space currently open MOT changes its form dramatically as you navigate through and around it [read more]

Bringing together two of Japan’s most visionary and free spirited women, an installation from SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima for Comme des Garçons has opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo [read more]