New, by Ryue Nishizawa [read more]
Posted by a 5:44 PM, December 14th, 2011 2 comments
“Construction in its full sense is always destruction as well” [read more]
Posted by a 5:08 PM, October 22nd, 2011 Comments Off
Arata Isozaki ruining the Japan Pavilion at the 1996 Venice Architecture Biennale [read more]
Posted by a 5:08 PM, October 22nd, 2011 Comments Off
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]
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]
Posted by a 10:53 AM, July 27th, 2011 Comments Off
Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA overcoming the tyranny of corners [read more]
Posted by a 11:47 AM, January 24th, 2011 2 comments
The infinity of the unknown in Tadao Ando and James Turrell’s Minamidera [read more]
Posted by a 9:29 AM, January 1st, 2011 Comments Off
“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]
Posted by a 10:27 PM, November 30th, 2010 Comments Off
Sou Fujimoto freeing architecture from weightiness and permanence [read more]
Posted by a 2:08 PM, November 1st, 2010 3 comments
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]
Yuko Kamei marrying bodies, spaces, movement and stills [read more]
Posted by a 5:58 PM, August 9th, 2010 Comments Off
Seven installations by contemporary Japanese architects [read more]
Posted by a 5:23 PM, July 13th, 2010 Comments Off
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]
Posted by a 12:37 AM, July 13th, 2010 Comments Off
Out of consideration for the pristine landscape of Naoshima, Tadao Ando completely submerged his building for the Chichu Museum [read more]
Posted by a 1:08 PM, April 16th, 2010 2 comments
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]
Posted by a 9:32 AM, April 5th, 2010 5 comments
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]
Posted by a 3:31 PM, February 25th, 2010 4 comments
In the ancient city of Kyoto, the O House is a cylindric tower extending from a two-story home [read more]
Posted by a 11:00 PM, February 8th, 2010 Comments Off
“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]
Posted by a 1:00 AM, December 28th, 2009 3 comments
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]
Posted by a 12:00 AM, November 20th, 2009 Comments Off
Currently celebrating its 5th year, The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art remains an extraordinary feature of the quiet, remote and inclement town of Kanazawa [read more]
Posted by a 12:00 AM, November 4th, 2009 Comments Off
The British author Angela Carter was one of many to become fascinated with the ephemerally of things in Tokyo, which she described as a city of ‘constantly changing appearances, all marvellous but none tangible.’ [read more]