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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]



























