Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Architect Sou Fujimoto inside the Grand Ring, a huge timber-framed structure encircling much of the Expo 2025 site. - Yumi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 12—A renowned Japanese architect has brought an example of a quick-build home for displaced fire survivors to Maui. A ...

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, whose projects explore connections between natural and man-made systems, said the world should limit new construction to reduce the climate impact of the built ...

Japan Society will present “Exceptional Japanese Houses: Residential Design from 1945 to the Present” – a book talk with Naomi Pollock on December 5 at 6:30pm at Japan Society (333 E. 47th Street ...

TOKYO (AP) — A new generation of Japanese architects is scoring success by reinterpreting the past. Unlike their predecessors, who modernized Japan with Western-style edifices, they talk of fluidly ...

Riken Yamamoto has been announced as 2024 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In its citation, the jury praised the 78-year-old Japanese architect, educator, and social advocate for producing ...

Arata Isozaki, a Pritzker-winning Japanese architect known as a post-modern giant who blended culture and history of the East and the West in his designs, has died of old age. He was 91. Isozaki died ...

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan (1995-2001); left: exterior view; right: detail of interior support tube (photos ©Naoya Hatakeyama, courtesy of The Museum of ...

A look at the traditional farmhouses now commonly called kominka—“old folk dwellings”—a name that underscores their age. They ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have won their profession's top honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, praised for their use of light and transparency in ...

Ever since the Great Exhibition opened its doors in London 174 years ago, the World’s Fair has offered nations a chance to show off the greatest inventions of the age. But Expos of recent decades have ...