(KENPEI– wikipedia/creative commons license) Nikken Sekkei, Ltd. designed the (Kyocera) Osaka Dome in 1997. This baseball stadium has also facilitated concerts by the world’s top musical artists. The ceiling moves according to acoustic and weather needs. The obvious marine look …
Category: Japan
(Tim Brown Architects– flickr/creative commons license) The thin 33ft storefront of Toyo Ito’s design somehow displays its full magnificence as the entire body of this show-off store sparkles to catch the eye. While many glitzy stores on Tokyo’s Omotesando boulevard …
(scarletgreen– flickr/creative commons license) In the lush green rice patties of 新潟 Japan, this rusted Corten steel building by Tekuka Architects stands as a whole and natural object. The meandering tube follows the hill’s topography and then rises into the …
(kentamabuchi– flickr/creative commons license) Hitoshi Abe designed this 2002 Town Centre for Reihoku, Japan. This project included close cooperation with the residents and city leaders for over three years. In the end, the rooms were left unspecific as they couldn’t …
Kengo Kuma and Associates designed the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum in 2005. A canal bisects the museum, perhaps taking a cue from the Nagasaki Peace Museum. Vertical structure of handrails on pedestrian bridges reflect the bamboo forest facades that define important …
(dlisbona– flickr/creative commons license) The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art has no formal organization that suggests a front or back. This project gives the historical city of Kanazawa on the Japanese coast a modern energy. Circular and block elements …
Together with halftecture, rooftecture questions the prescribing of composition components in a design. The metal roof curves, much like the hill behind it, to meet the ground and assume exterior walls. The masonry walls seem more like landscape features, but …
(..colb..– flickr/creative commons license) Considering that modern architecture has broken down design to structure components, like column, roof, or window, Endo experimented sought a new method by questioning the inside/ outside relationship. The visual containment from the rusty metal skin …
(itulu26– flickr/creative commons license) Kengo Kuma designed this historical hot springs hotel in Honshu Island, Japan for a slick and modern atmosphere. Thirteen ancient inns nestle together in the valley, but as one enters the Ginzan they see a distinction …
(sota-k– flickr/cc license Winner of the 2001 Pritzker Prize, Herzog de Meuron’s Prada Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan is a strong contender against Rem Koolhaas’ Prada Epicenter in Beverly Hill, California.Herzog de Meuron threw out typical ideas of a store and …