(numb 11– flickr/creative commons license) MVRDV designed the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Museum in 2009 越後妻有アートトリエンナーレ 大地の芸術祭 in Tokamachi City and Tsunan. The region is famous for its hot springs, rice fields, and for the world’s largest annual art festival, at …
Category: Japan
(Donbraco– flickr/creative commons license) Takamasa Yoshizaka designed this Modernistic house in 1964. The Brutalist concrete walls angle up into the sky and are capped with a trimmed roof. Yoshizaka worked directly under Le Corbusier in Paris and then worked on …
(kentamabuchi– flickr/creative commons license) Kazumi Kudo+Hiroshi Horiba designed the Hakata-ku Elementary School in Fukuoka City, Japan. It was completed in 2001. Functions on vertical layers portrude in or out of the structural system depending on the arrangement. A clearly linear …
(yisris– flickr/creative commons license) Jun Aoki designed the Aomori Museum, near the Towada Centre. Earthen walls rise up into the pure white bricks of this simple geometric building. Great blocks of white rise above the trenches and interact with the …
(scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) Jun Aoki designed the in Toyosaka, Niigata Japan. It was completed in 1998. The circular building expands outward as it spirals up toward the sky. The walls become clear ribbon windows. The interior core stars spiral …
(scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) Toyo Ito designed GrinGrin Central Park on a manmade island in Hakata Bay in Fukuoka Japan. Island City uses the park to establish recreational and natural space in the midst of an economic hub. Three buildings …
(acme– flickr/creative commons license) Kohn Pedersen Fox, Arup, and The Jerde Partnership designed the Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills Tokyo, completed in 2003. Roppongi is a new urban development that brings modern flair to mixed-use buildings. The glass facade rolls …
(Ogiyoshisan– flickr/creative commons license) Tadao Ando designed the Hyogo prefecture Museum of Art in Kobe Japan, completed in 2002. Ando uses his sculptural concrete forms with well placed transparencies. Art is displayed in concrete and glass walls. Two …
(timothybrennan– flickr/creative commons license) Universal Studios Japan opened in 2001, with a large number of American-styled attractions. The central shopping mall is covered by a large domed glass arcade. The glass panels are suspended by an exo-skeleton steel frame. As …
(skrytebane– flickr/creative commons license) Tadao Ando designed the Benesse Museum in Naoshima Japan, completed in 1995. The facility integrates museum and hotel with four buildings. Art is displayed in the Oval building and Museum. The park contains an additional twenty …