Articles Tagged with ''Japan''

Designed by Manabu Chiba, a new outpost of shabu-shabu chain Kyoto Hyōto swaps the usual shoji screens for honeycomb panels in a dazzling arrangement of heights and sizes.

The non-profit Miho Belmont International worked with a team that included Atelier Ryo and I-Kanda Architects to renovate and relocate a traditional timber 'minka' in the Boston suburbs.

The Naoshima New Museum of Art, dedicated to works from across Japan and Asia, is the tenth project by Ando on the Japanese island.

At the center of the small but powerful show is a restored dwelling unit that was saved when the Tokyo high-rise was demolished.

Instead of looking to the future, the Expo‘s gathering of 158 nations exchanging visions of peace and progress feels stuck in the past.

The ethereal Anabuki Arena Kagawa transforms a landfill site into a public space that people are free to move in and around 24 hours a day.

Although based in Tokyo, the celebrated architect—winner of the 1993 Pritzker Prize and the 2011 AIA Gold Medal—kept close ties to the U.S., where he was educated and had launched his career.

The Japanese architect speaks to RECORD about the importance of community as a social construct and as the driving force of his architectural design over five decades of practice.

Wrapped in a textured stucco facade, this home for one in Tokyo contains a rich material palette and a trove of exquisite details.