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In 1958 Japanese architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928-2011) completed the Sky House, a residence designed and built for himself. The project still stands out as a landmark to his long-lasting architectural…
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In 2019 Singapore-based architect Kerry Hill and his team completed the design of the Aman Resort in the city of Kyoto, Japan. Aman represents the fruition of a beautiful landscape,…
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Completed in 1992 by Japanese architect Hiroshi Naito, the Sea Folk Museum is an example of wood Japanese craft with an 18.5 meter-wide (60.7 feet) roof constructed of laminated timber…
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The Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA -In Memory of Helen Keller- were the first residential works of ‘procedural architecture’ built by Arakawa and Madeline Gins, and it is the first ‘undying…
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In 1997, Shigeru Ban completed the Wall-less House, also known as the House Without Walls. In this project, Ban creates a “universal floor,” a term coined by Robert Kronenberg in…
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The Benesse House Museum designed by Tadao Ando opened in 1992 as a facility integrating a museum with a hotel based on the concept of “coexistence of nature, art, and…
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The Fussa City Hall was completed in 2008 by Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto, 40 km from Tokyo. The two twin tiled towers emerge from an undulating carpet of grass that…
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Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. – Kenzo Tange
The famous Japanese architect Toyo Ito designed the white U House in 1976 for his older sister, who had just lost her husband to cancer. Built-in the center of Tokyo,…
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In China, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma was chosen among ten Asian architects to design ten residences each, creating a hundred houses altogether in a forest adjacent to the Great Wall…
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