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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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The Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan), designed by Kunio Maekawa in 1957, opened in April 1961. The building was Japan’s first concert hall and was located in Tokyo’s…
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In the late ’60s, Togo Murano was asked to re-design the earlier wooden facilities of the Japan Lutheran Theological seminary which was one of the leading theological study centers in…
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To commemorate the 350 years since the foundation of the Zuisho-Ji Temple, Kengo Kuma was asked to renovate the temple and the priests’ quarters within the temple. The new addition…
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The white U House was designed by the famous Japanese architect Toyo Ito in 1976 for his older sister, who had just lost her husband to cancer. Built-in the center…
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The house the Australian architecture duo Bolles + Wilson designed and built between 1990 and 1993 for Mr. Suzuki in Tokyo is a playful unicum, yet a perfectly contextualized fragment in the…
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In 2016, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto partnered with Daito Trust Construction to “redefine the rental house” for the House Vision 2016 exhibition held in Tokyo.
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The National Museum of Western Art designed by Le Corbusier was the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The Museum is located in the museum…
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In Tokyo, Architect Kengo Kuma was chosen to design Pigment, an art-supply shop like no other. With more than 4,200 pigments as well as 600 paintbrushes and 50 types of…
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Japanese practice Akihisa Hirata Architecture office looked to the larger scale of the neighborhood to design the concept for a Collective Housing in Tokyo titled’ kotoriku’: the irregular roads define the different areas of activity…
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