SANAA

SANAA Creates a Cluster of Volumes Housing a Museum and Library to Anchor a New District in Taichung

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

A new cultural complex in Taiwan's second-largest city comprises an array of eight boxy, steel-framed volumes wrapped in aluminum mesh.

In a City on Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, SANAA Combines Three Sports Venues Under One Undulating Roof

Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400

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.

SANAA Wins 2025 RIBA Royal Gold Medal

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:04:48 -0500

The Japanese firm will be celebrated in London on May 1.

At MIT, SANAA Shapes a Music Building Among Midcentury Icons with Respectful Irreverence

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:01:00 -0500

The Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building marks a departure from the firm’s signature style while creating a dialogue with the buildings surrounding it.

Kazuyo Sejima and Phyllis Lambert Awarded 2023 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:41:57 -0500

The SANAA co-founder and Canadian architecture doyenne are recipients of the prestigious prizes recognizing women who have made lasting impacts on the built environment.

SANAA’s New Sydney Landmark at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500

The reimagined Art Gallery of New South Wales incorporates cascading glass pavilions and World War II-era bunkers.

Bocconi University by SANAA

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:06:00 -0400

SANAA meshes a sinuous cluster of gossamer buildings into the rigid urban plan of Bocconi University’s campus in Milan.

La Samaritaine by SANAA

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

A historic emporium for the people is transformed into a luxury shopping mall.

Paris's La Samaritaine to Reopen After 16 years

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:27:00 -0400

The mixed-use complex, including La Samaritaine department store, is expected to open at the end of May.

A Japanese Constellation at MoMA

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 09:00:00 -0400

A new exhibit examines the experimental architecture of Japan.

Grace Farms by SANAA

Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:30:00 -0500

A ribbon of glass, steel, and wood floats through a hilly landscape, serving a nonprofit foundation dedicated to bringing people closer to art, nature, and faith.

Grace Farms Sets Date for Opening of its SANAA-Designed Complex

goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) — Fri, 01 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400

The Grace Farms Foundation, a New Canaan, Connecticut-based non-profit with a multifarious mission focused on faith, justice, and community, has announced that it will officially open its new complex on October 9.

Disappearing Act: SANAA's Louvre-Lens

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Louvre-Lens, a luminous outpost of the venerable Paris museum, opened in mid-December in the northern French town of Lens.

First Look: SANAA's Louvre Lens

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:00:00 -0500

The new branch of the Louvre couldn't be more different from the museum's iconic Paris home.

SANAA Unveils Design for First U.S. Building Since Pritzker Win

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:00:00 -0400

Located on 75 acres of preserved land in New Canaan, Connecticut, the 65,000-square-foot transparent volume will serve as a headquarters for the nonprofit Grace Farms Foundation.

Rolex Learning Center by SANAA

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

SANAA's much-anticipated Rolex Learning Center calls into question long-standing views about architecture.

Sejima and Nishizawa Win 2010 Pritzker Prize

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0400

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of Tokyo-based Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates, better known as SANAA, will receive the 2010 Pritzker Prize.

SANAA Designs Artificial Landscape

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Students and faculty at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, will begin hiking the internal topography of the new Rolex Learning Center when it opens on February 22.

Derek Lam

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The mere thought of a high-profile architect designing a shop for a well-known fashion designer raises the old question: Will the container dominate the contained—i.e., the clothes?

SANAA Makes Debut in London with Serpentine Pavilion

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0400

Designed by Japanese firm SANAA with structural engineering by Japan-based SAPS and UK-based ARUP, this year’s structure promises to be a departure from years past, if only because SANAA, according to the partners Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, “started out trying not to make ‘architecture.’”

SANAA Designs First Derek Lam Boutique

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:00:00 -0400

On Tuesday, the latest venture from the renowned Tokyo-based firm SANAA—a boutique for fashion designer Derek Lam—will open its doors.

New Museum of Contemporary Art by SANAA

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

At New York's smart New Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo-based SANAA creates an ambiguous icon for an area in transition.

SANAA's New Museum Opens in NYC

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0500

The design for the New Museum, which the Tokyo-based firm Sejima + Nishizawa/Sanaa first revealed in 2003 for New York City’s only all-contemporary art institution, layers six off-kilter white boxes above a formerly grungy block on the Lower East Side.

Glass: Transparent, Translucent, and Ironic

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0400

If there were a prize for the project most often mentioned during the conference “Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering,”